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January 2012

January 20, 2012

To Gingrich: A Little Less Honesty on Race, Please

The people in my mother's family, on the whole, have always been warm-hearted, decent and...

January 18, 2012

Tim Tebow: Nice Guy Becomes Clanging Symbol

Say whatever you like about Tim Tebow -- and my friend, the Broncos fan, says...

January 17, 2012

Twenty at 40?

Today I turned 40. No longer will I be eligible to enlist in the French...

January 16, 2012

Readers and Writers on Social Media: In Each Other’s Heads

A few months ago, Peggy Noonan made my day -- my whole week, in fact...

January 12, 2012

The Accidents of Appearance

If you want to quit worrying about your looks, there are worse places to be...

January 11, 2012

Beware the Everyday Epiphany

I keep a close watch on myself to make sure I don't succumb to magical...

January 10, 2012

The Vatican and Wiki, the Global Village Well

The Vatican has finally given Wikipedia its nihil obstat, imprimatur. To provide biographical material on...

January 09, 2012

The Joys of Collusive Irreverence

When I say I have a crush on Thérèse of Lisieux, I'm two-thirds joking --...

January 08, 2012

“Hallelujah” in Alaska: Northern Christmas Lights

In most cases, playing Christmas music after Christmas is in even worse taste than wearing...

January 08, 2012

Is There Life Without the Like Button?

Ah, Nemesis. Swift-flying, gimlet-eyed hangwoman of the gods. You really got me good this time,...

January 06, 2012

Diary of A Wimp (Who is Catholic)?

In a recent South Park episode, an anti-statist milita group decides to strike a blow...

January 05, 2012

Advice to Santorum: Remember the Catacombs!

It's a shame nobody's given Cardinal George credit for rhetorical restraint. When he warned of...

January 02, 2012

The Artiste and the Soldier Should Be Friends

Among the regulars on the right-wing discussion board where I provided some of the loyal...

January 02, 2012

Tintin and the Mystical Body of Christ

In his big-screen debut, Tintin won't be picketing any abortion clinics, or testifying before Congress...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

Cautionary Tales for Adults

Seven years before Uncle Tom’s Cabin hit the shelves, a German psychiatrist named Heinrich Hoffmann...

December 29, 2011

A Merry Middle-Class Christmas

Bob, my mother’s boyfriend, will argue that Happy Days jumped the shark several seasons before...

December 21, 2011

After Kateri, No More Flower Children

With a second miracle to her credit, Kateri Tekawitha’s 331-year wait for sainthood is finally...

December 19, 2011

Oscar Wilde’s Tomb: Let Processions Come Hither

Oscar Wilde was a people person. When Patience, Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera spoofing the aesthetic...

December 17, 2011

Oedipus in the Heartland, Choruses in the Combox

Last night, the Anchoress blogged on a peculiar prank that parents, in collusion with the...

December 15, 2011

Elf on the Shelf: Scrupulosity for Unbelieving Tots

Today in Slate, Torie Bosch describes how non-religious parents are using the children’s book Elf...

December 14, 2011

A Depressed Solipsist’s Guide to Prayer Vigils

Having what a vocations director might describe as an active temperament, I have always, half-consciously,...

December 08, 2011

Confession of Sam the Eagle

The folks at Fox have been wondering whether the Muppets are trying to “brainwash kids...

December 05, 2011

Catholic Jokes: Good, and Good for You

This evening, in honor of Fr. Jim Martin's new book, Between Heaven and Mirth, my...

December 05, 2011

A Merry Post-Modern Christmas

Can anyone hear the song “Bells of St. Mary’s” without remembering the scene in Goodfellas...

November 2011

November 28, 2011

The Lord is My Mentor…

Well, having lived through it once, I have to say that the new Mass translation...

November 24, 2011

A Cardinal’s Brutal Homily

My mother lives on the second floor of a high-rise apartment building on West End...

November 23, 2011

Pepper-Spray Cop and the Humor of Despair

Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams thinks very highly of the "Pepper-Spray Cop" internet meme, which in...

November 22, 2011

Autism: The Result of Math Whiz X 2?

If you're Jenny McCarthy, you blame autism on vaccinations. If you're Michael Savage, you blame...

November 19, 2011

Tomorrow’s Sex Ed: Better than Porn?

My father learned about sex -- the theory, that is, not the practice -- from...

November 18, 2011

Aging and Single, Self-Reproachful and Relieved

You know you’re in extremis as far as marriageability goes when you find yourself composing...

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