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January 2016

January 26, 2016

Lent for the Reluctant Ascetic

I grew up in the days before Velcro. By persisting to the age of five...

January 11, 2016

In Defense of “Sob-Signaling”

Spectator columnist Julie Burchill is ordering her readers: “Please spare us the sob signaling over...

December 2015

December 21, 2015

The Witness of Larycia Hawkins: Too Much Solidarity, Not Enough Clarity

Last Tuesday, political science associate professor Larycia Hawkins was placed on administrative leave by Wheaton...

December 17, 2015

Why Grow Up When You Can Be Christian?

“One cannot really be a Catholic and grown-up,” wrote George Orwell in an essay on...

December 11, 2015

Remembrance of Sins Past: Book 341

The thing about him that struck me first was his mode of dress, which was...

December 10, 2015

Advent’s Lesson: Redemption Ain’t All Cyrus and Second Temples

If you were in peril of your life, with your last hope slipping away, and...

December 10, 2015

A Maverick Marian Moment

Yesterday evening, I planned to write contra Trump, to damn him for a mountebank, an...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Tales from A Runner, Shy of Virtue

According to one strain of conventional runners’ wisdom, whoever can run a half marathon can...

November 25, 2015

Story of A Thanksgiving Mugging

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

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 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 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...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Video: The Nymph of the Swimming Pool

October 17, 2015

“Radical Loneliness” and the Parable of the Frozen Octopus

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 26, 2015

Contra Bill Maher

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

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...

September 16, 2015

My Brain Bug Meets Dem Dry Bones

Hearing Ben Carson quote Proverbs on humility and fear of the Lord inspired me. There...

September 14, 2015

For Rosh Hashanah: The Jewish Earworm

Being Jewish isn’t always a picnic. I got my first inkling of this when I...

September 13, 2015

Blank Slate: Free Tattoo Removal Helps Strip off Badges of Sin

One evening in Moscow, I happened to glance at the hand of the man I...

September 11, 2015

9/11 and Conversion

I’ve tried to tell this story before but I’ve gotten it wrong. So I’ll try...

September 10, 2015

“I’m A Christian, but…but Nothing.”

Buzzfeed’s latest viral video, titled “I’m Christian, but I’m Not…,” features five spruce twentysomethings who...

September 06, 2015

Merkel, Orban and Europe’s Christian Soul

My wish, farfetched though it may sound, is that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had invoked...

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