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June 2016

June 08, 2016

Jimmy Stewart Shows Us How It’s Done

There's been a great deal of unpleasant discussion in the blogosphere this week, and I...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

They Also Serve Who Only Sit And Study

So on Tuesday night I dropped my daughters off for dance class at 6:30 and...

May 24, 2016

Tuesdays with the Talking Head

On Tuesday nights since last September, I and my friend Diana have been co-leading our...

May 23, 2016

What’s in a Confirmation Name

We usually attend the evening mass on Sunday; and for an added treat, yesterday's mass...

May 16, 2016

Three Ways to Correct Your Brother

The application of these ways to the Internet is left as an exercise for the...

May 15, 2016

Mercy and the Green-eyed Monster

My Lay Dominican chapter had a retreat yesterday led by Fr. Brian Mullady, OP. Given...

November 2015

November 04, 2015

Did We Expect Too Much From the Synod?

So the Synod on the Family concluded recently, as you very well know if you’ve...

October 2015

October 06, 2015

You Can’t Change Him…But He Can Grow

And for once, surprisingly, conventional wisdom has the right end of the stick. We are...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Let’s Be Unfriends!

How often have you heard statements like this on Facebook? "I unfollowed three nut cases...

September 16, 2015

Mercy and Long Time Horizons

We Christians seem to spend a lot of time telling folks what not to do. ...

August 2015

August 24, 2015

His Bright Materials: the Saints and the Forge of God

For each of His saints God knows best how to bring the pure metal out...

August 11, 2015

Knowing is Not Enough; and the Doing is Hard

Continuing through Cam’s comment on my post about suffering in Heaven, he asks, Your first...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

What He’s Researching, I’m Studying

Commenter Cam left a long and thoughtful comment on a recent post of mine about...

July 08, 2015

A Collection of Mindfulness-ness (Updated!)

Recently I’ve been hearing quite a bit about mindfulness, most recently at Weight Watchers where...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

My New Friend: A Rugged Rosary

I've got a new friend; he lives in my car. That's him, over there to...

June 09, 2015

The Evil Catholic Hierarchy?

A commenter on my post about why I remain Catholic asked, Have you considered the...

June 03, 2015

Seven Lies Christians Tell

Tony Kriz had a piece in Christianity Today some while ago about the lies Christians...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

My Road to Catholic Belief

Last week I explained why there is no magic bullet for belief, no simple, straightforward...

May 12, 2015

What’s the Good of Christianity? And Does it Matter?

Last week I opined that the question of what religion is good for is the...

April 2015

April 15, 2015

Living on a Prayer Trigger

St. Paul tells us to pray without ceasing. Just what that means is not entirely...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Lent, Weight Watchers, and Aristotle

I associate dieting with Lent. Not because I equate fasting with dieting, but because of...

February 18, 2015

A Little Perspective on Father Serra

Being a California kid, I first became acquainted with Fr. Junipero Serra almost as soon...

February 12, 2015

Steven Brust on Being at Peace with Yourself

I remember being accosted on Forbes and Murray in Squirrel Hill by a Buddhist who...

February 06, 2015

New Book: Spiritually Able

Spiritually Able, subtitled "A Parent's Guide to Teaching the Faith to Children to Special Needs",...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

You Must Be Full of Demons

“You must be full of demons!" It was something like that, anyway. “I’m not going...

December 2014

December 03, 2014

Reverence, Within or Without

Sometimes I read blog posts that use the word "reverence" what seems to be a...

December 02, 2014

The Sacraments: What Christ is Still Doing

At RCIA a couple of weeks ago, our pastor made the comment that the Sacraments...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

On Praying for What You Really Want

Should I ask God for what I want? Is it arrogant to ask the Lord...

November 18, 2014

#GraceOfYesDay

Today is #GraceOfYesDay, celebrating my friend Lisa Hendey's new book, The Grace of Yes: Eight...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Becoming Family and Encouraging the Unnoticed

Last week Katrina Fernandez, my fellow Patheoso, issued this cry from the heart: Overlooked and...