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May 2013

May 06, 2013

The Church and Gays: No Earthly Reason

Yesterday morning, ten LGBT-rights activists gathered outside St. Patrick's cathedral for Mass and found themselves,...

May 04, 2013

This Week in the Military: Duelling Moral Panic

Military Religious Freedom Foundation head Mikey Weinstein takes pains to remind fellow Americans that he's...

May 02, 2013

The Limits of Companionship

In a piece on her Sexual Authenticity blog, Melinda Selmys calls loneliness and isolation "the...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

Confessions of A Wannabe Chechen

Some people are wannabe Chechens. In actual fact, they could be Kurds, Azeris, Tajiks, Sandžak...

April 20, 2013

Now Thank We All Our God

In the Boston suburb of Watertown, law-enforcement officers have killed marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev...

April 18, 2013

Fun with Muslims

Mr. D. was choking. Clutching his throat and gagging, he mananged to spit out a...

April 16, 2013

For the Love of Conspiracy Theorists

Though not religious in any conventional way, Rick, my best friend, believes strongly in a...

April 14, 2013

Kermit Gosnell and the Bursting Bubble

On LifeNews, Jill Stanek offers a good summary of the media establishent's recent come-to-Jesus moment....

April 11, 2013

But They Couldn’t Call Her A Kike

In 2005, Cindy Sheehan, mother of a soldier slain in Iraq, was becoming the official...

April 08, 2013

A Prayer for Suicides

On Friday morning, Matthew Warren, son of Saddleback Valley Community Church pastor and Purpose-Driven Life...

April 07, 2013

Broken Silence

On Saturday afteroons, there's a special stillness in the air of churches, a vacuum like...

April 03, 2013

In Praise of the Carnival

As soon as I stepped out of my apartment Easter morning, I saw my upstairs...

April 01, 2013

An Act of Kindness

I'm in the habit of keeping my front door open, at least a few inches....

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Why I’m Catholic, in 200 Words

This morning, I received a copy of an e-mail from Elizabeth Scalia, inviting all the...

March 25, 2013

Come Back, Magdi Allam!

I'm still hoping that Pope Francis' election won't serve as the starting gun in a...

March 22, 2013

Keep it Simple…For Now?

One day in the agora, tradition has it, Diogenes passed a group of spiffily dressed...

March 20, 2013

Convenience Store Apostolate

As I was walking home from Mass on the second Sunday in Lent, a woman...

March 18, 2013

My Mother Likes Pope Francis

This statement might not sound worthy of a lede, much less a headline. But I...

March 11, 2013

Addicted to Faith Films

You’ve got to hand it to St. Augustine. In his Confessions, he records his evolution...

March 06, 2013

Scenes from an Accident

Early this morning, I saw a woman in a white car pull out of the...

March 03, 2013

My Real Career: Fool in Christ?

The letter opened on an ominous note. "Dear Max," wrote the manager. "I wanted to...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Psalms Sung Blue

In the first few psalms, God comes across like a rogue cop in a James...

February 13, 2013

The Pilgrimage of Dorian Gray: My First Ash Wednesday

Following the Arizona Cardinals can feel like an endless meditation on the vanity of human...

February 11, 2013

Father of Mine: A Lenten Reflection

If you grew up in an average occidental family, chances are excellent that at some...

February 08, 2013

Crashing the Gate at Legatus

I am stalking George Weigel. His trail is very warm, let me add. The lion...

February 04, 2013

Ed Koch and the City I Almost Knew

One afternoon in June, the student body of my primary school trooped out to the...

February 02, 2013

Cardinal Mahony: Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Guy

In the summer of 1945, following a three-week trial, a jury convicted Maréchal Philippe Pétain...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

The Horrors of Butting In

I'm probably attacking a straw man -- or at best a stick man -- but...

January 26, 2013

Nuts About Freedom

My house smells like tomcat. I don't mean tomcat spray. Rusty, the stray orange tabby...

January 23, 2013

The $*(#$ing Power of Vulgarity

I don't have my copy of Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night on my lap....

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