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August 2012

August 16, 2012

Has Ryan Saved the Republic?

Paul Ryan's hometown bishop has defended him. The bishop of Lansing, Michigan and the archbishop...

August 13, 2012

Mourning My Father and (In Some Ways) A Gentler Time

I woke up Saturday morning in a funk. In itself, this is nothing unusual. But,...

August 08, 2012

Can Atheists Make Us All Sing “Kumbaya”?

To the average Irish person, it might come as a surprise that William III of...

August 06, 2012

Chaput and the Republic of Chickens

These days, Philadelphia archbishop Charles Chaput has been showing signs of America fatigue. "Democracy," he...

August 03, 2012

Romoeroticism for Straight Guys

In Crisis Magazine, Eve Tushnet argues that the Catholic Church has something unique to offer...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

Could Loser-Shaming Prevent Future Auroras?

In an episode from South Park's sixth season, Butters, embittered over his demotion from Kenny's...

July 17, 2012

The Science of Saintly Mashups

Something frivolous. A mashup, according to Wiki, is "a work of fiction which combines a...

July 15, 2012

Fair Play for Patriarchies

It's easy to draw parallels between Penn State's pedophilia scandal and the Church's. It's also...

July 14, 2012

Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Schism?

Something's got to give. Lately, that's what a number of observers have been warning. The...

July 10, 2012

Is Modest Hottest for Churches?

The first Catholic church I ever entered as an adult was St. Mary's, in Tempe,...

July 05, 2012

The Boy Magdalen

It always tickled me that Oscar Wilde and Maria Goretti share a birthday. (It's October...

July 05, 2012

How to Write About Sex

If you're theologian Alice von Hildebrand, the answer is obvious: delicately, if not sparingly. Sex...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

The Perils of Self-Esteem

Imagine a nation's armies have suffered the most catastrophic and humiliating defeat imaginable. Generals once...

June 24, 2012

“Taking the High Road,” Take One: Bill Keller

This weekend at the Catholic Media Conference in Indianapolis, Bishop Christopher Coyne, who once served...

June 20, 2012

Save the Kitsch!

Fr. Jim Martin is a brave man. He has made a personal crusade of re-interpreting...

June 19, 2012

Who the Blank is Leah Libresco?

You know you're hopelessely out of touch when a blog post manages to go viral...

June 14, 2012

“I Wish I Could Quit You”

Last week, National Catholic Reporter published an essay by Joe Orso titled "The Power of...

June 09, 2012

Of Mothers, Muppets and Sr. Margaret Farley

Maybe because she grew up hearing the Tridentine Mass daily, my mother has always had...

June 05, 2012

The Paranoid Style of Church Politics

In 2010, InsideCatholic.com director Deal W. Hudson asked, "Is It Time for A Catholic Tea...

May 2012

May 22, 2012

Vanity of Vanities

Some days, you just wake up to a big, wet kiss from life. This morning,...

May 19, 2012

Fr. Williams and the Grind of Celibacy

They say you know you're getting old when cops start looking like kids. I say...

May 17, 2012

Fair Play for the Girl Scouts!

A friend of mine, actually one of my old parish's most accomplished busybodies, once talked...

May 15, 2012

Sendak’s Not-so-Wild Things

Researching last week's piece on tattooing revived somewhat my old interest in Polynesian culture. With...

May 10, 2012

Life After Sex?

Yesterday, at the Crescat blog, Katrina Fernandez wrote that nobody has ever died from not...

May 07, 2012

In Defense of Tattoos

Several years ago, a friend of mine covered his enormous tricep with a portrait of...

May 04, 2012

Mark Shea and the Gay Saint

Mark Shea's May 1 column, the one in which he informally canonizes the late Perry...

May 01, 2012

A Confession About Confessions

It's a shame I wasn't in a church with an open confessional last Saturday. I...

April 2012

April 23, 2012

The Best Hippy-Dippy Catholic Movie Ever

A naked blonde lies staked to the ground, straddled by a man who means to...

April 20, 2012

The Prophecy of Sister Laurie

Many observers have a hard time believing that the LCWR really was "stunned," as it...

April 16, 2012

How to Eat Like A Loser and Love It

Years ago, on a discussion board, someone started a thread titled: "What are your food...

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