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November 2015

November 25, 2015

Story of A Thanksgiving Mugging

It was the night before Thanksgiving, 2006. I was walking the three miles and change...

November 22, 2015

Refugees and Bart Simpson’s Paradox

In the summer of 2002, Brent Scowcroft published an opinion piece in the Wall Street...

November 20, 2015

ISIS Should Get Its Own Patheos Channel

ISIS’s magazine, Dabiq, preaches mainly to the choir. As Robert Evans observes in Cracked, its...

November 17, 2015

A Humble Plug for Refugees

Last night in a Facebook PM session, my friend Mohammed told me that he recently...

November 16, 2015

Jean Ousset: The Wit and Wisdom of A Wingnut

In the days before e-mail, dashing off a few words to a friend or a...

November 14, 2015

Contra Mindy Selmys: Anger Isn’t Always Hatred

In Mesa, Arizona, three days after al-Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center, an armed man...

November 14, 2015

In Paris: Christ Crucified or Avenging Angels?

In the fall of 1914, the Welshman Arthur Machen published a short story titled “The...

November 12, 2015

Starbucks and the Red Cup of Conquest

It suddenly occurred to me that I’m endorsing Starbucks on this blog by sporting a...

November 11, 2015

For Veterans’ Day: Reflections on the Field-Hospital Church

A few years ago, Monsignor Charles Pope wrote a short essay defending the use of...

November 11, 2015

Nicholas Christakis: Too Much Obsequiousness Is A Dangerous Thing

Boy, am I ever out of touch. Yesterday, when I begged compassion and mercy on...

November 10, 2015

Mercy for “Shrieking Girl”

The poor kid. This may seem like a strange way to describe the Yale student...

November 05, 2015

On All Souls’ Day: A Plenary Indulgence for Dad

My father has been dead for more than 13 years, but every once in a...

November 04, 2015

Generation Win: LGBT-Rights Supporters and Those Mad Enough to Resist Them

We’re living in a world where jocks use words like “relational” – and come to...

November 02, 2015

The Race and “Mean God Syndrome”

November 02, 2015

The Tragic Case of the Catholic Theologians and the Village Explainer

Any Catholic theologian who chances to read this will probably wonder, “Whose words are these,...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

Video: Death Comes with Ice Cream

October 24, 2015

Video: Missing Marietta

October 19, 2015

Video: The Nymph of the Swimming Pool

October 17, 2015

“Radical Loneliness” and the Parable of the Frozen Octopus

October 14, 2015

Two Vital Announcements from Your Wimpy Catholic

October 08, 2015

Lessons from A Modern Family of Introverts

When I say I have no social skills, I mean I lack the flexibility to...

October 05, 2015

Bone of My Bone of Contention

One evening toward the end of last year, two fellow teachers and I were walking...

October 01, 2015

On Abstaining from Communion

The other week at Mass, I remained in the pew when everyone else got up...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Caught up (A Little) in the Francis Effect

A number of readers have offered negative feedback on my last piece. One was my...

September 28, 2015

Immune to the Francis Effect

Looking back over this past weekend, I’m not sure whether I can pinpoint the exact...

September 26, 2015

Contra Bill Maher

Try as I might, I just can’t dislike Bill Maher, probably because we represent the...

September 24, 2015

Eid al-Adha for the Deaf and Dumb

It was not, initially, my intention to remain all but ignorant of the Turkish language....

September 23, 2015

“His Holiness and Hizzoner” — Pope Francis and the Ghost of Ed Koch

Dear Blahblah You are an insufferable old bat. I don’t give a tuppeny damn what...

September 23, 2015

On Meeting A Young Drunk for the Third Time

The young man whose habitual drunkenness and general air of misery had once moved me...

September 18, 2015

The Catholic Church: Destination for Wandering Adult Kids of Divorce

One Sunday afternoon when I was 17, I returned from my father’s house to find...

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