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March 2017

March 12, 2017

What Do Sex, Lent, UFO’s, Evolution, and the Shroud of Turin Have in Common?

They're all, in one way or another, connected with Catholicism. That's how they're related. These...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

Lady Gaga: The Super Bowl’s Muse of Nationalist Catholicism

Catholicism isn't in decline in the United States. It is as loud and up-front as...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

Why Are Muslims Filling Up France’s Traditionally Empty Churches Today?

As someone who lived in Nantes, France for nearly a year I can say that...

April 2016

April 13, 2016

Postmodernist Lacan Proclaims the Triumph of the One, True, Catholic Religion

It is the right time to unveil this bombshell on the day when one of...

November 2015

November 03, 2015

The Intangible and Terrifying Spiritual Energy in Rocamadour

I'm getting close to finishing Michel Houellebecq's novel Submission. The critics immediately billed the book as...

October 2015

October 20, 2015

Michel Houellebecq’s Submission to Catholicism

Michel Houellebecq is France's literary bête noire. His much-anticipated novel Submission finally makes its appearance today...

October 08, 2015

Cradle Catholic Open Letter: Stop Protestant-splaining #Synod15!

The letter and overly-earnest essay are the order of the day for apocalyptic-Protestant panicking about...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

2 Possible Questions About Rod Dreher’s “Orthodoxy, Catholicism, & the State”

I am thankful Rod Dreher took up my piece "Why Doesn't Holy Mother Russia Remain...

May 2015

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 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 22, 2015

Famous Atheists Who Aren’t Atheist: Hold off on Papism David Brooks!

Did you know that Sartre was a Jew, Camus intended to become a Protestant, Warhol...

March 2015

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...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Upward Trends: The State of Catholic Culture Report

The Republican dropping of abortion into the political dumpster put the failure of the Pro-Life...

January 20, 2015

A Breakdown of the Conservative Catholic Hermeneutic of Contiguity?

I did not expect that reposting "To What Degree is First Things Responsible for Iraq?"...

January 10, 2015

Houellebecq: Charlie Hebdo Coverboy Maps Faith’s Manifestations

Michel Houellebecq is on the front cover of this week's edition of Charlie Hebdo. It...

January 09, 2015

Spreading the Blame: The West’s Exporting of Jihad

Why is it when a small group of religious fanatics kill innocent people it's a...

October 2014

October 17, 2014

Disproportionate Influence: Catholicism and the #HongKongProtests

This is the second installment of my interview with Dr. Justin Tse. It concentrates upon...

July 2014

July 08, 2014

Were Catholics Targeted by the Conservative Culture Wars?

Rachel Held Evans has finished her third book and is back to blog writing. I...

April 2014

April 01, 2014

Famous Feminists Who Aren't Atheists: Luce Irigaray, Catholic

It took me a while to figure out a topic for April Fool's that would...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Liturgy, Fanny Howe, and the Horrors of Reality

I'd like to enlist the poet Fanny Howe in the service of defending Eagleton's characterization...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Blurred Lines: (Theologically) Nothing is Sacred

Let's get back to the principles of Rabelaisian Catholicism. It all started with a post...

December 02, 2013

Derrida and Theology + Phenomenology as Catholic Philosophy = The French Theological Turn

If we apply the principle of "Ye shall know them by their fruits," then it...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Reformation Day: For Shame Catholics and Protestants are the Same!

Reformation Day: it's my day to resist the temptation to take unjustified swipes at our...

October 30, 2013

Books I've Cheated On: Non-Fiction

I'm attempting to get back to blogging by tying it to my dissertation. Yesterday's post...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Is the Pope Protestant? (On the Propes)

I'd like to get back to the topic of ultramontanism I broached two days ago...

September 25, 2013

We Are All Ultramontanists Now: Catholic Infighting is a Sign of Strength!

When I hear people say Catholic means "Here Comes Everybody" I wonder if they really...

September 09, 2013

Considerations for a (Violent &) Secular Age

I've been working on yet another translation of a Dariusz Karłowicz text. This time it's...

September 05, 2013

Christianity Is Neither a Monotheism Nor a Religion of the Book (Remi Brague)

This blog began with a series of posts debunking some common myths about Christianity. There...

September 03, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 4: Heidegger’s Nietzschean Sideburns

Due to a late night bout of copy-editing I am not able to write the...

August 2013

August 10, 2013

Confession: How I Lost My Faith After Reading Rachel Held Evans

I'm around 35 (!) and I can't say whether I qualify as millennial. But fear...