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October 2013

October 11, 2013

Thanking God for Crickets Thanking God

Late one evening a couple of months ago, when Valley nights were still sultry, I...

October 08, 2013

The Lazaruses Next Door: Finale

Softly, I told Chris I knew he and Laura had fought, that Laura was at...

October 04, 2013

Fear of An Ambitious Laity

"Bean-counting" is a dead metaphor for most people, but a few years ago, on retreat,...

October 01, 2013

On Meeting a Young Drunk Again

The next time I saw him, it was about six in the morning. He was...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

On Seeing A Young Drunk

I can never remember his name, but I do remember his job: He's an employment...

September 23, 2013

The Church and the Cracked Kettle

My parish's associate pastor comes from the Phillipines. At Sunday Mass, I sit only about...

September 20, 2013

Are You A Blessed Imelda?

It was one of those happy misunderstandings I come by whenever I have to speed-read...

September 07, 2013

Is Big Father Watching Us?

In one scene from Annie Hall, Alvy (Woody Allen) finds his argument with Annie (Diane...

September 02, 2013

We’ve Got A Live One

The very day I wrote in praise of Catholic doodads, a friend of mine, having...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Where’s Allison Benedikt Leading Us?

Today in Slate, pour épater la bourgeoisie, Allison Benedikt tells her readers: "You are a...

August 27, 2013

Miley Cyrus and the Wisdom of Repugnance

Making the rounds on Facebook is a photo of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith...

August 13, 2013

Rest Among the Catholic Doodads

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

August 04, 2013

The Hidden Blessings of a Feminist Mother

Rod Dreher thinks Lynn Messina's a bad mother, and he thinks that's a hoot. In...

May 2013

May 12, 2013

My Mother: Muse and Proxy Fighter

Last Thursday at the office, right in the middle of her work day, my mother...

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 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...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Psalms Sung Blue

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

February 08, 2013

Crashing the Gate at Legatus

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

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 23, 2013

The $*(#$ing Power of Vulgarity

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

January 20, 2013

Green Eggs and Ambo

In the film adaptation of Herman Wouk's World War Two novel, The Caine Mutiny, there's...

January 18, 2013

Next Stop: Trent?

This Sunday, I'm attending a Latin Mass. There, it's decided. I could hardly call myself...

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