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September 2015

September 04, 2015

Kim Davis and the Wild Leap of Faith

To all appearances, when Kim Davis, claiming to act “Under God’s authority,” imposed a ban...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

Amends: A Novel, Reviewed

Eve Tushnet’s debut novel, Amends, is a novel of ideas – the ideas she’s been...

August 17, 2015

Wherein I Manslpain Virtue Like A Prissy Little White Knight

Long before Darren Aronofsky dreamed of casting Russell Crowe as Noah, I amused myself wondering...

August 15, 2015

St. Maximilian and the Two Crowns

A couple of my readers reminded me that yesterday was the feast day of St....

August 14, 2015

The Feast of the Assumption for the Downwardly Mobile

I almost always manage to skip Mass on the Feast of the Assumption. Although I...

August 11, 2015

When the Customer Was Wrong

Like most of the stylists on the floor, she was young – probably about 22....

August 10, 2015

The Old Church in Tempe, AZ Needs You

The doors of St. Mary’s Church, on the corner of University and College, in Tempe,...

August 07, 2015

Farther, My God, from Thee: The Life of Faith for Short People

The average American man stands 5’9 ½ tall. The average non-Hispanic white American man stands...

August 06, 2015

Margie Winters: The Making of A Rebel

When I first read the story of how Waldron Mercy fired Margie Winters, a lesbian...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

Planned Parenthood, Risk Management, and Divine Mercy at St. Vincent Ferrer

Today at 3:00 PM, Manhattan’s St. Vincent Ferrer Church on 66th and Lexington is hosting...

July 30, 2015

On Going to Mass in A Pissy Mood

Masses: I’ve taken ‘em high, I’ve taken ‘em low. I’ve parked my mortal coil in...

July 21, 2015

Catholic Schools and Gay Teachers: Can We Compromise Without Compromising?

Since firing religious education department head Margie Winters for being married to another woman, Waldron...

July 17, 2015

Of Sheep, Sheepdogs, and Self-Love

In The National Review, David French takes aim at the Washington, D.C. Metro passengers who...

July 17, 2015

“Without Getting All Freakish About It”

This is a story about saints and signs, and how the right word to the...

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 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 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

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 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 27, 2015

The Devil I Know

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

May 18, 2015

A Strange New Rosary

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

May 18, 2015

New Arab Saints: A Fountain of Virtue to the Thirsty

The careful reader will note something forlorn in the words “Pope Francis presided over the...

May 08, 2015

Unfriending Jack Without Friending Bill

If the AA chapter had been a little more upscale, I might just have gone...

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