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August 2016

August 22, 2016

An Open Letter to the Editor Who Fired Mark Shea

Dear ____: Several days ago, National Catholic Register announced that it had dismissed Mark Shea,...

July 2016

July 18, 2016

Lessons from Erdoğan’s Victory

The mighty Turkish army foiled by the cast of Les Miz? That seems one likely...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Mamma Mia! Emergency Baptism at 30,000 Feet

You may have noticed, reader, that I haven’t blogged much lately. There’s a reason for...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

My First Orthodox Liturgy: A Blast for A Rainy Day

Strolling through Moscow in the spring and summer of 1997, you couldn’t lose sight of...

April 29, 2016

Bursa Suicide Bombing and the Return of History

You can’t keep a dog in downtown Bursa. The people are too pious. Or maybe...

April 24, 2016

Amoris Laetitia and the Family Road Trip

A confession: I’m in no hurry to get through Amoris Laetitia. Two hundred, sixty-four pages...

April 21, 2016

A Little Blood Never Hurt Anyone

Shortly after recovering from a nervous breakdown that culminated in a suicide attempt, William Cowper...

April 19, 2016

Je Suis — I mean, Ich bin ein Jan Böhmermann

In 1998, Istanbul Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was sentenced to 10 months in prison for...

April 18, 2016

Muslim Student’s Grounding Proves We’re Getting to Know Each Other

My friend Khalid’s mother, a native of Karachi, was named “Shaheda.” She stressed the first...

April 14, 2016

Keeping My Brother — Exp. Not Nec. but a +

. When I first saw the guy groping his way down the aisle with his...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Flashman and the Wardrobe

Mallory Ortberg's Ayn Rand's The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is a few months...

March 28, 2016

The Gladsome Easter Morn

I spent my first Holy Saturday helping my friend Rick move. I had offered my...

March 25, 2016

Was I There When They Crucified My Lord? Well…

Six weeks after my first marathon, I ran a second. By then, I’d upgraded my...

March 20, 2016

St. Joseph: Patron of Crawlers and Scramblers

Several years ago, St. Joseph found me a job. I still haven’t thanked him properly....

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Lent for the Reluctant Ascetic

I grew up in the days before Velcro. By persisting to the age of five...

January 20, 2016

How to Lose A Marathon

I spent roughly the first 15 miles of Phoenix’s PF Chang’s Rock and Roll Marathon...

January 11, 2016

In Defense of “Sob-Signaling”

Spectator columnist Julie Burchill is ordering her readers: “Please spare us the sob signaling over...

January 07, 2016

Farewell to Miss Florence King (1936-2016)

The late Gore Vidal began his last set of memoirs: “As I move – I...

January 06, 2016

Is It Time for A Moral Panic over Pornography?

This past November, the Bishops’ Conference published a pastoral response to pornography titled “Create in...

January 03, 2016

Girls at the Altar: Decompressing A Condensed Symbol

Yesterday, Michelle Arnold, a Patheos colleague, wrote in defense of altar service by girls and...

January 01, 2016

Modesty for Men

A few months ago, I had a Skype conversation with a Catholic writer who is...

December 2015

December 21, 2015

The Witness of Larycia Hawkins: Too Much Solidarity, Not Enough Clarity

Last Tuesday, political science associate professor Larycia Hawkins was placed on administrative leave by Wheaton...

December 19, 2015

In Defense of Serena Williams

Kathy Schiffer, my Patheos stable-mate, has made it into The Washington Post for observing that...

December 17, 2015

Why Grow Up When You Can Be Christian?

“One cannot really be a Catholic and grown-up,” wrote George Orwell in an essay on...

December 12, 2015

An Evening with Our Lady of Guadalupe

It’s been six years since I’ve gone away overnight on retreat. The last time was...

December 11, 2015

Remembrance of Sins Past: Book 341

The thing about him that struck me first was his mode of dress, which was...

December 10, 2015

Advent’s Lesson: Redemption Ain’t All Cyrus and Second Temples

If you were in peril of your life, with your last hope slipping away, and...

December 10, 2015

A Maverick Marian Moment

Yesterday evening, I planned to write contra Trump, to damn him for a mountebank, an...

December 07, 2015

Islam, Reality, and Renewal

Anyone feeling a little desperate to see the connection between Islam and terrorism parsed intelligently...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Tales from A Runner, Shy of Virtue

According to one strain of conventional runners’ wisdom, whoever can run a half marathon can...

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