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May 2016

May 13, 2016

When Amorous Leticia Met the Deacon…

There's been lots of handwringing in some Catholic circles about Amoris Laetitia, and just today...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

The Dogmat Saw Lions, Panthers, and Saints, Oh My!

The Dogmat thinks he'll start with the Panther. A 78-year-old German man was hiding a...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

The Dogmat saw Miyazaki!

Well, not in person. The Pope and the Animator: John Herreid writes about what Pope...

July 23, 2015

The Dogmat saw Pictures, Pictures Everywhere

The Dogmat has been renewing his interest in photography recently, and has come across a...

July 16, 2015

The Dogmat Saw Litigation, Minecraft Cathedrals, and Absurd Optimism

The Dogmat saw the usual range of stuff, including a couple of thought-provoking pieces and...

July 09, 2015

The Dogmat Saw The Beauty

The Dogmat has seen a lot of neat and beautiful stuff over the last couple...

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 18, 2015

The Dogmat saw Causal Chains, People Burning Alive, and Real Distinctions

This week the Dogmat saw dance recitals, mostly. Lots and lots of dance recitals. Or,...

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...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

The Dogmat saw Outrage, Lies, Persons, and Art

The Dogmat saw many things this week, and all too few of them were goofy....

May 22, 2015

The Dogmat’s Dictionary: Mystical Body Dysphoria

Mystical Body Dysphoria (MBD): A condition that occurs when a member of the Mystical Body...

May 21, 2015

The Dogmat saw Cosplayers, Millennials, and Tyrian, O My!

The Dogmat saw strange and amazing things this week, from Daleks in dresses to Tyrian...

May 14, 2015

The Dogmat: Preaching, Double Spaces, and Unfair Readings to Kids

The Dogmat saw quite a lot this week: on preaching, the post-mortem accessibility of double-spaces,...

May 07, 2015

The Dogmat is Watching You

And O! the things the Dogmat has seen in the last week! 7 Hand Gestures...

January 2015

January 14, 2015

Duquette’s Law of Theology and Quantum Mechanics

Occasionally I'll hear a speaker discussing the religious or philosophical implications of quantum mechanics. There'll...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

The Dogmat Sez

Bad behavior on my enemy's part does not justify bad behavior on my part. Bad...

November 04, 2013

The Dogmat Sez

When you're a layperson, the world is your cloister.