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September 2015

September 20, 2015

The Blood of St. Januarius Boils Over Every September

Catholicism is a strange religion, perhaps the most worldly of them all, if you...

September 09, 2015

Florida Man Wants You to Buy a Christian Assault Rifle

The state of Florida attracts the most interesting criminal activity that there are now tumblr,...

August 2015

August 10, 2015

U Mad (Papist) Bro?

Even though he didn't invent it, the Seattle Seahawks Stanford-educated cornerback, Richard Sherman, smartly pwnd...

July 2015

July 04, 2015

5 Leads for Celebrating Dependence Day (An Alternative Holiday)

Independence Day is the quintessential holiday for lovers of liberty. But what if negative liberty...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Holly Taylor Coolman on Remaining a Catholic

Holly Taylor Coolman teaches theology at Providence College. This is a guest post. ========================================== I...

June 27, 2015

The Queer Catholic Pro-Life Logic of the Gay Marriage Majority Decision

The second half of Jody Bottum's Age of Anxiety makes a strong case for the...

June 23, 2015

Conservatives (Not Liberals) Planted American Catholic Dissent

“I love clichés and hackneyed expressions of every kind because they’re largely true,” says Violet...

June 07, 2015

No Other Live Options: Why Pater Edmund Was, Is, & Ever Shall Be Catholic

This is a guest post. Pater Edmund Waldstein is a Cistercian monk who blogs at...

June 05, 2015

The Sacramental Imagination: Why Emily Edmondson Remains Catholic

This is a guest post. ================ Emily Edmondson is a graduate student at the University...

June 03, 2015

Why am I Still a Catholic? What Else is There?

The Patheos Catholic channel is doing a roundup of members defending their faith. This is...

June 02, 2015

Santorum to CHEMIST Pope Francis: “Leave Science to the Scientists!”

Here's hyper-Republican ideologue Rick Santorum on Pope Francis (and climate change) in a radio interview...

June 01, 2015

How to Make the Rosary More Inclusive in 3 Easy Steps

One of the great blessings of the rosary is its repetitiveness. This repetitiveness fosters the...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Ireland & Legitimacy: An Ironic Correlation Between Clergy Abuse & Gay Marriage

They say that correlation does not imply causation. However, when you continually see a pattern develop...

May 14, 2015

The Unholy Holiness of the Church Scandalizes Expectations of Purity

I feel responsible for purifying the minds of my readers from the defiling they experienced...

May 06, 2015

Just Another Atheist Jewish Catholic: An Interview With Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com and a consulting editor at the University of...

May 05, 2015

The Spell of Sensuous Silence: A TOP10 Book List of the Divine Sense

The interviews are coming. The interviews are coming! Shh . . . Thursday this week...

May 01, 2015

May Day — Dorothy Day: Political Radicalism & Liturgical Conservatism Feed off Each Other?

Despite popular prejudices I am no enemy of RadTrads. For example, I've come to appreciate...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

FBI Head Comey is Maliciously Wrong on Holocaust Facts about Poland

It's been said the victors write the history books. This should not be equated...

April 15, 2015

Do You Know Why You Can Blame Catholics for Gay Marriage?

Today I would like to continue in the vein started by my discussion of the...

April 09, 2015

So You Think Moses Can’t Liturgical Dance? Forget #SalonChristianitySecrets!

Twitter might be abuzz with #SalonChristianitySecrets inspired by a Religion Dispatches piece on Holy Saturday...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

Hand? Mouth? What About the Third Way of Receiving Communion?

There are way too many silly debates on how to take Communion. Being a contrarian...

March 24, 2015

Netanyahu Understands the Inquisition Better than Zmirak (Who is Closer to Cruz)

The Black Legend of the Inquisition persists because it takes popular opinion a couple of...

March 17, 2015

5 Pathbreaking Catholic Titles to Watch from the University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago is no doubt one of the most dynamic academic institutions in...

March 16, 2015

2nd Year Summary: 3 Things I Love (& 1 Not So Much) About the Francis Papacy

Anniversaries are traditionally reserved for tallying gains and losses. It's hard to believe...

March 09, 2015

Satan Likes Pure Spirituality, But St. Augustine Prays Over Butts

Last week I introduced you to Fabrice Hadjadj whose Faith of the Demons which is...

March 03, 2015

Even Demons Believe: Converting the World Will NOT Make Everyone Holy

Last week I wrote about the one novel you need to read this year. Now...

February 2015

February 23, 2015

1 Thing Nobody Noticed about Oscar Best Foreign Film Winner Ida

Great art always shows you more than you are prepared to see. While watching Ida...

February 12, 2015

The Catholic Valentine’s Creepier than 50 Shades

On this Valentine's Day I'd like to remind you that Catholicism is creepy. Yesterday afternoon I...

January 2015

January 15, 2015

What Christian Group Says It Worships Same God as Muslims?

French history, and a little bit of American international relations, have been the main focus...

January 03, 2015

BREAKING — Pope Says We Are All Responsible for Climate Change

In a leaked draft of the forthcoming encyclical on the environment the pope says: Preservation...