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November 2014

November 20, 2014

Cardinal O’Malley writes about his “60 Minutes” interview

From The Boston Pilot's website: Last Sunday evening I was privileged to be featured on...

November 10, 2014

“We see horrific violations of charity and reason all over the internet…”

Fr. Z unloads on Catholic blog commenters, and explains why he moderates the comments: I...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Shea sums it all up

The best thing I've read all day: We need to become more fully Catholic, but...

September 17, 2014

Fast Company magazine takes a look at “blogging nuns and tweeting monks”

Suddenly, the mainstream media has discovered religious folk on the web. Who knew? Details: In...

August 2014

August 25, 2014

All about Eve: Eve Tushnet talks about being “Gay and Catholic”

Recently, my blog neighbor Eve Tushnet got the Salai Treatment (being interviewed by Sean Salai, S.J.) in America...

August 25, 2014

What can you do about cruel comments online?

Some interesting insight into a subject we've all encountered at one time or another, via...

August 21, 2014

James Foley reminds us of what we knew all along: prayer matters

Elizabeth Scalia, as usual, nails it: What I have been arguing for in these past...

August 21, 2014

Archdiocese throws cold water on the “ice bucket challenge”

And if you read on, you'll see one of our Patheos bloggers mentioned. Details: The...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

What we have come to: language blogger fired for writing about “homophones”

Really: Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

Team Patheos!

A little group of us, representing part of the Patheos Catholic Channel, gathered to lead...

June 19, 2014

Gospel and BBQ in Charlotte!

No one can say the visit to Charlotte has been dull. This evening's Mass was...

June 19, 2014

Archbishop Kurtz on digital media: We need to move “from diatribe to dialogue”

Louisville's Archbishop Joseph Kurtz delivered the keynote at last night's session of the Catholic Media...

May 2014

May 23, 2014

Rep. Rebecca Hamilton says goodbye to all that

My blog neighbor—18-year veteran of the Oklahoma House of Representatives—is finishing up her last session...

May 21, 2014

Smile: 10 commandments for the digital age

From The Telegraph: It might seem far removed from some of its more sombre instructions...

May 05, 2014

Happy birthday, dear Patheos, happy birthday to yooooouuuu….

Patheos is pretty big for a five-year-old, don't you think? Today marks the five-year anniversary,...

May 04, 2014

On deacons, blogs, bishops and obedience

Over at his blog, Deacons Today, Bill Ditewig unpacks the recent controversy surrounding the UK's...

May 03, 2014

UK Bishop: “I have not closed down the deacon’s blog”

Remember this item about Deacon Nick Donnelly in the Diocese of Lancaster in the UK?...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Another deacon at Patheos: Congratulations to Scot McKnight!

A little over three years ago, I was blogging at Beliefnet when Elizabeth Scalia called...

April 29, 2014

UK bishop shuts down deacon’s blog

You may remember the controversy surrounding the blog "Protect the Pope", managed by Deacon Nick...

April 25, 2014

The Canonization Chronicles: A deacon’s view in Rome this week

Deacon Bill Ditewig, in Rome for the canonizations, found the most important spot in the...

April 16, 2014

“The sacred and profane collide on the Via Dolorosa”

Thousands of pilgrims walk the streets of Jerusalem every year, retracing the footsteps of Christ,...

April 14, 2014

“Pope Francis has challenged us all to look more closely at the way we are as a church…”

A paper in South Jersey, the Courier-Post, looks at the controversy over where bishops live,...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

“The emergence of the Catholic blogosphere is one of the most significant developments in the 21st century Church”

An editorial from the UK's Catholic Herald: It’s not difficult to find evidence of our...

March 20, 2014

A contrarian view of “unplugging”

If you are one of those who has forsaken Facebook or Twitter for Lent, you...

March 14, 2014

Bishop in UK orders deacon to stop blogging

An interesting turn of events across the pond, via London's The Tablet: A deacon who...

February 2014

February 03, 2014

Best description of Seattle. Ever.

Hot on the heels of last night's less-than-cliffhanger Super Bowl, a much-too-gleeful Washingtonian (Mark Shea)...

January 2014

January 24, 2014

“The pope seems to chide those who use the Internet to make statements but refuse to accept comments…”

Yesterday, Sister Mary Ann Walsh of the USCCB took a closer look at the pope's...

January 22, 2014

The most common passwords of 2013

Honestly? Sheesh: Password security is more important than ever. If you wonder which ones are the...

January 17, 2014

“There will always be those who reject truth; we need to make sure it isn’t our growling teeth that causes them to flee…”

I stumbled across this in a blog post by Diane Korzeniewski, about celebrated preacher Fr....

January 16, 2014

Thomas Peters, six months on

For those who have been following his story, and remembering him in prayer, an update:...