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September 2015

September 07, 2015

Today’s Aquinas: What Does It Mean To Be Holy?

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

November 2013

November 24, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Time

So you've begun to pursue the interior life. You're learning to respond to the Lord's...

November 18, 2013

How To Call Someone To Repentance

Last month I spent many pixels criticizing a particularly bad and ineffective way of explaining...

November 17, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Direction

A couple of weeks ago I compared the interior life to a kitchen remodel. You've...

November 10, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Feelings

When you embark on the interior life, you'll find that feelings come with it. Sometimes...

November 07, 2013

On Being a Conduit of Love

Receiving God's love is kind of like tuning in on a radio signal. God's love...

November 06, 2013

The Touchstone of Obedience: Medjugorge and Other Apparitions

I am not an apparitions kind of guy. I'm aware of Fatima and Guadalupe and...

November 05, 2013

The Pony Principle

Many years ago I formulated what I call the Pony Principle, which is this: if...

November 03, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Cooperation

Looked at one way, the interior life is a long series of repairs. We are...

November 01, 2013

Mere Catholicism

So Elizabeth Scalia welcomed me to Patheos on her blog a couple of days ago,...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Righteously Bad Theology

As the Anchoress noted a couple of days ago, a server in Overland Park, Kansas...

October 27, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Grace

Pursuing the interior life—a life of holiness—is not easy, but fortunately God doesn't leave us...

October 23, 2013

Just What Is a Sin, Anyway?

We Christians interested in evangelization are in the business of explaining to people how they...

October 21, 2013

As Catholic as the Pope

Some while back I told one of my sisters in the Dominican Laity that I...

October 20, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Hunger

I do not often resemble the following scriptures: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst...

October 13, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Respond

Reprinted from my old blog. The first thing to do in pursuing the interior life...

October 07, 2013

Religion *Is* a Relationship

Leah Libresco says that time spent on religious activities isn't time taken away from your...

October 07, 2013

Fumbly, Stumbly, Wooly-headed, Thick-tongued Prayers

Prayer is a massive, wonderful, frightening thing. God is there and wants to hear from...

October 03, 2013

Wisdom and Knowledge

Mr. Magundi says, “The difference is simple,” Mr. Magundi replied. “Knowledge is progressive, and wisdom...

October 01, 2013

The Oak and the Apple

My younger son is preparing for confirmation. The program this year is more involved than...