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May 2015

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...

November 2013

November 05, 2013

Purgatory-Schmurgatory, As Long As You’re Hopeful

By the Council's 25th session, when the Trent Fathers finally got around to the subject...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Yes, He’s the Burying Kind

We should have buried Erich Priebke. Or rather, since protesters in Albano Laziale effectively derailed...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

Rest Among the Catholic Doodads

The Catholic Doodad Shop -- not its real name -- stands kitty-corner from the L.A....

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Darn Tootin’ Pope Francis Is A Liberal

Last month, Elizabeth Scalia, my managing editor, proposed a moratorium on "liberal," "conservative," and suchlike...

May 2013

May 24, 2013

How’s That “Culture of Encounter” Workin’ for Ya?

On Wednesday, May 22, Pope Francis called on Catholics and non-Catholics to build a "culture...

April 2013

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...

March 2013

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...

February 2013

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...

December 2012

December 16, 2012

Can A Mass Murder Mean A Church-World Truce?

Only something unthinkably bad could make Slate and National Catholic Register cover the same story...

December 14, 2012

Murder, We Posted

I was out when news of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School first...

December 04, 2012

Skype: the Open Confessional

The Pope's on Twitter. The secular press is running profiles of Catholic bloggers. It's starting...

November 2012

November 17, 2012

Back in the Fold

If Susan Pevensie from the Chronicles of Narnia were a real person (or if I...

September 2012

September 14, 2012

Christianity and Islam: an Alliance of Civilizations?

When the Cairo embassy's statement condemning the film Innocence of Islam was mis-attributed to President...

July 2012

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...

January 2012

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...

October 2011

October 24, 2011

Vatican to Main Street, U.S.A.: The (Tea) Party’s Over

Poor Bill Donahue. The Catholic League president has made it his mission to rebut any...

July 2011

July 02, 2011

Four Cool Things About Cardinal Scola

An old Catholic axiom holds that whoever enters the conclave a papabile, leaves a cardinal....

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