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July 2015

July 14, 2015

BenOpt-Out

I’d like to get ahead of the crowd and opt out of the Benedict Option....

July 13, 2015

The Not-So-Simple Faithful

How do you welcome someone who’s convinced he holds the deed to your house? That’s...

July 12, 2015

Bill Cosby and Creepiness Creep

Cancel the culture war. When newspapers of record start writing headlines in the language of...

July 10, 2015

Pope Francis and the Mommy Trap

The Holy Father is all about mothers. In Ecuador, he warned of a “mother wound,”...

July 09, 2015

Of Obergefell and Ostracism

Just as I was learning not to hate the term “national conversation,” gay marriage supporters...

July 08, 2015

Moral Injury Shows the Limits of Forgiveness

Among veterans of the Global War on Terror, the conscience is alive and kicking. The...

July 07, 2015

Alessandro Serenelli: Sinner for Our Time?

Yesterday, as Michelle Arnold and Simcha Fisher dutifully observed, was the Feast Day of St....

July 06, 2015

Those Stupid Private Race Wars

While marching last week through Istanbul’s super-historic Sultanahmet district to protest the Chinese government’s restrictions...

July 04, 2015

A Requiem for Abnormality

A few weeks ago, a longtime reader, a gay man in his 60s – his...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Hiding My True Colors

In my misspent youth – which is to say until my early 30s – I...

June 27, 2015

Obergefell and New Identities

I would not have known this yesterday, but reading Slate on the morning after an...

June 26, 2015

In Defense of Cool Old Symbols

Let me begin by agreeing that it’s time for the Confederate flag to be retired...

June 26, 2015

Give Me A Palanca, and I’ll Move the World

Just this evening one of my readers PM’d me over Facebook and asked me to...

June 23, 2015

The Rising Cost of Price Tagging

Last Thursday, after arson damaged the administrative buildings of the historic Church of the Multiplication...

June 20, 2015

God and Dylann Roof: Beyond Strength and Weakness

Dylann Roof, who has confessed to gunning down the pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...

June 18, 2015

In Charleston: AME Martyrs of Charity

Earlier today, someone set fire to the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and...

June 18, 2015

Ramadan at the Mall

They say Ramadan opens with a rolling worldwide cannonade: each locality keeps its own cannon,...

June 16, 2015

Rachel Dolezal, John Howard Griffin and the Dangers of Race-Changing

“Pray God,” wrote T.E. Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, “that men reading this story...

June 11, 2015

How to Live Near Section Eight Housing

Last Friday’s pool-party fracas in the Craig Ranch section of McKinney, Texas ended with Corporal...

June 09, 2015

Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Single

With the vague idea that human souls enjoyed some kind of eternal existence, I have,...

June 07, 2015

What Cordileone Should Have Said

Last week, at a Sacra Liturgia conference in Manhattan, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone warned...

June 03, 2015

Jenner Dysphoria

Caitlyn Jenner has more than two decades on me. Even so, when I look at...

June 02, 2015

Why I’m Still Catholic

I was raised Freudian. My father was a psychoanalyst; my mother had, at various points...

May 2015

May 31, 2015

Conversions at the Phoenix Islamic Cultural Center

When I first met Paul Griffin on Friday afternoon in front of Washington Park, during...

May 30, 2015

Phoenix: Civilizations Clash at Twilight

If you were up for some fun mischief – say, if you wanted to set...

May 27, 2015

The Devil I Know

The devil has been prowling around Patheos like a roaring lion. Yesterday, Simcha Fisher warned...

May 25, 2015

Are We Ready for Our “Holocaust Literature” Yet?

This past Saturday on Facebook, a friend of mine posted an e-mail forwarded her from...

May 22, 2015

A Palm for Romero, A Finger Wagged at the World

The Church’s decision to beatify Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez as a martyr shows just...

May 21, 2015

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: All out of Mercy?

For me – and, I suspect, for many people – defense witnesses’ pleas for Dzhokhar...

May 18, 2015

A Strange New Rosary

A few years ago, a homeless woman named Karen began turning up in my apartment...

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