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June 2016

June 01, 2016

To Go Left, First Turn Right

A friend of mine from when I was in graduate school has written a book...

August 2015

August 23, 2015

Being a Jerk Doesn’t Necessarily Make You a Misogynist

I just ran across this post, "Beyond Mansplaining: A New Lexicon of Misogynist Trolling Behaviors",...

June 2015

June 25, 2015

The Dogmat saw Racism and Death

Much of what the Dogmat saw this week made him unhappy, especially the news from...

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 11, 2015

The Dogmat Saw Pakistani Jazz, Gnostics and Small, Petty Men

This week the Dogmat saw a string orchestra from Pakistan, Robert Barron on modern variants...

June 04, 2015

The Dogmat saw Shticks, Schemes, and Broken Gods

It was another good week for the Dogmat, barking-wise; the Internet continues to serve up...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

How I Pray: Me

Tom McDonald has been doing a series of interview posts with on-line Catholics on the...

December 10, 2014

You Shall Surely Die. Also, Beer.

...though probably not on a trip to the Holy Land, as Frank Weathers makes clear...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Third-Cousins Twice Removed?

Are you sure? You can check this handy chart if not.

November 21, 2014

Peace and the Warrior Ethos

During my career I've been privileged to work face-to-face with two retired four-star generals, who...

November 18, 2014

#GraceOfYesDay

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

November 09, 2014

A Few Words About Snopes.com

You can't spend long on-line these days without hearing about Snopes.com, that arbiter of Internet...

November 06, 2014

The Mystery of Preaching: The Proclamation of the Kingdom

My latest at CatholicMom.com. Preaching the gospel means sharing the Good News of Christ’s death...

November 04, 2014

St. Martin de Porres

Yesterday was the feast day of St. Martin de Porres, a Dominican saint from South...

October 2014

October 17, 2014

Wedding at Cana: The Mystery of the Body

I have to get my CatholicMom posts in a week ahead of time; and then...

October 15, 2014

Tolkien Illustrations in the Medieval Style

You'll want to spend some time with these illustrations of The Lord of the Rings...

October 01, 2014

Brandon Watson on being a Competent Critic

Brandon Watson is always worth reading; here he gives an extended meditation on what is...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Quill v0.2.0 Release

Quill v0.2.0 has been released. Those interested can find it at GitHub.

August 29, 2014

The Comprehensibility of the Incomprehensible God

Kyle Cupp, one of our newer bloggers at the Catholic Channel, just gave us this...

August 28, 2014

Late to Love

My friend Sam Rocha has just released a CD of what he calls Augustinian soul...

August 07, 2014

Dr. Who does the Time Warp

OK, this is simply brilliant...and rather better done than most Youtube videos I've seen.

August 06, 2014

Mistake No Identities!

Do not confuse your parish priest with the Almighty. Do not pass go. Do not...

July 2014

July 04, 2014

Angel Summoner and the BMX Bandit

Fridays are usually for music; but my nephew showed me this delightful bit of British...

June 2014

June 21, 2014

Six Pilgrims (Plus One) Along the Camino de Santiago

An old friend of mine from the Newman Center community at Stanford has begun a...

June 05, 2014

Elizabeth House: How Charity is Done

In the last couple of days I've seen lots of stories about a "Home" for...

May 2014

May 28, 2014

The Long and the Short of Infinite Regressions

One of my favorite philosophy bloggers is James Chastek at Just Thomism. I find his...

May 13, 2014

The Pope is a Tolkien Fan!

Now this is simply too cool for words: Pope Francis used Frodo and Sam as...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Books in the Mail

Got two books in the mail, today: The Lion's Gate, by Steven Pressfield Scholastic Metaphysics:...

April 16, 2014

Fr. Robert Barron on Bart Ehrman

A couple of weeks ago, on my post "Why Catholicism", a commenter said that I...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

On Wodehouse, Wooster, and Jeeves!

The New Yorker has an article on Bertie Wooster, his valet Jeeves, and their creator,...