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October 2014

October 03, 2014

Abuse When She Was a Child

Heard on the train from New York to Pittsburgh yesterday: A middle-aged and an older...

October 03, 2014

Haredi Gaming the System

Heredi men flying on El Al from the United States to Israel seem frequently to...

October 02, 2014

It is a Healthy Drink, Says Sister

Of the 490 (yes, 490) sisters in Mallersdorf Abbey in Bavaria, Sister Doris Englehard has...

October 02, 2014

Kasper’s Apprently Intentional Ambiguities

In his writings and talk on marriage, Cardinal Walter Kasper remains ambiguous but, or rather therefore,...

October 01, 2014

The Joys of Fasting, From Someone It Really Pains

"Iit's not that tough, really. I'll eat dinner at 5:00 Friday, then I'll go to...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Homosexual Interests Trump the Poor’s

"The Catholic Church does incalculable good, providing immeasurable comfort — material as well as spiritual...

September 25, 2014

On Those Who Sin Against Books

From Edmund Lester Pearson, a now unknown writer, via the Paris Review, a story of what happens...

September 25, 2014

Our Lady’s Grandmother

According to an Irish scholar publishing in the Journal of Medieval History. This is a story...

September 24, 2014

An Exercise in Rhetorical Analysis

In this case, a guide to reading apartment ads in New York City. This is...

September 24, 2014

In Denmark, SSM That Is, But Isn’t, But Really Is

By law, as they're employees of the state (who begins tipping the whole thing into...

September 23, 2014

David Brooks Misses the Point

Oh, some will say, there they go again, riding their hobby horse. In today's column,...

September 23, 2014

Days of Awe, Days of Assurance

"In the year that we are now parting with, 5774, it became dangerous once again...

September 23, 2014

Fessio v. Kasper

Cardinal Kasper wants to have his cake and eat it too, is Father Joseph Fessio's...

September 22, 2014

If You Comment, Just Stop

All right, after a few days not posting anything, to post a critical remark on...

September 18, 2014

The Times, the VP, the Nuns, & the Church

When covering the Catholic Church, the New York Times reliably gets it wrong. The newspaper has a...

September 17, 2014

We Worship Lucifer. Just Look at the Latin

Now the End Begins, the website mentioned in the previous item, really doesn't like the...

September 17, 2014

Media Facepalm of the Day

As a friend put it. The International Business Times seems to be a respectable newspaper,...

September 17, 2014

Your Own Indian Princess

He'd been surprised, wrote a friend, when a DNA test came back without any Native American...

September 16, 2014

Inviolable Fertility

"You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I'd do is get [female...

September 15, 2014

When the State Says You Have to Serve Food When You Serve Drink

What one pub did in response to an Indiana regulation requiring it always to serve...

September 14, 2014

It’s a Funny Old World 8

Legal advocate David Blacker, said by the reporter to look a lot like Hagrid in...

September 14, 2014

A Way to Talk About Dying

"As you know, I'm a born again Christian" is a line rarely uttered by a...

September 11, 2014

A Liturgical Pez Dispenser

This is, apparently, not a hoax: the Communion White Host Dispenser from a company called...

September 10, 2014

Beer As a Social Marker

Not directly applicable to people of the age of the average Patheos reader but probably generally true...

September 10, 2014

Avian Disappointments

What I think is a Black-capped Chickadee just sat on the perch on the hummingbird...

September 10, 2014

The Discreetly Nursing Mother

Elizabeth Scalia's comment on yesterday's Conservative Breast-Feeding: When I first saw the headline from David Mills I...

September 09, 2014

The Semi-Divine Putin

"A divine light at the moment when [Putin] left his baptism transfixed his essence, restoring...

September 09, 2014

The Peace a Good Thing, Even When Overdone

The peace, bane of introverts even when celebrated reverently, and bane of introverts and many...

September 09, 2014

Conservative Breast-feeding

Based on an inconclusive twitter discussion between three "prominent conservatives," none of whom I'd ever...

September 08, 2014

Mediaite v. Time

Conflicting narratives: "Atlanta Hawks Owner To Sell Share of Team over Racist Email" from Mediaite....

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