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January 2013

January 04, 2013

Praying for Jennifer Fulwiler and Breaking the Gadget

Readers: When I wrote this piece, all the news I'd received on Jennifer Fulwiler's condition...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Melampus, the Nativity Basset Hound: Finale

With the death-smell filling his nostrils, and Acantha's heartsick whine still filling his ears, Melampus...

December 26, 2012

Melampus, the Nativity Basset Hound: Part Two (of Three)

"Slow and steady wins the race," Aesop wrote. So often had Melampus heard the words...

December 25, 2012

Melampus, the Nativity Basset Hound: Part One

Historians trace the basset hound back to the pack raised by St. Hubert of Liège,...

December 21, 2012

The Hidden Drama of Prayer

Yoking modern technology and oogedy-boogedy devotional practice, the website for the santuario in Nettuno, Italy,...

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 04, 2012

Skype: the Open Confessional

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

December 01, 2012

Avoiding the Advent Trap

The worst thing about being robbed by crystal meth addicts is having to walk them...

November 2012

November 21, 2012

To the Pit Crew on My Faith Journey

So I check Facebook this morning and see that Joanne McPortland has posted a link....

November 19, 2012

Stupid Pie in the Sky

One afternoon, when I was 14 and visiting Paris with my mother and her boyfriend,...

November 17, 2012

Back in the Fold

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

October 2012

October 04, 2012

The Bull of Gubbio

A priest I used to know hated St. Francis bird baths. He was Italian-American; judging...

September 2012

September 17, 2012

A Slight Shift in Direction

Over the past week, I've produced one current-events analysis of just over 1,000 words, and...

September 08, 2012

How I Almost Committed An Act of Religious Violence

To an uncanny degree, the last two pastors of my old parish -- barring an...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Goodness, Holiness and Fr. Groeschel

In an oft-quoted line from a German play, a character says, "When I hear the...

August 27, 2012

On the Side of “Boys on the Side”

It was around Veterans' Day, 2003, when Larry Flynt announced he had photographs of former...

August 23, 2012

Confessions of a Lowbrow

Frank Sinatra made a more convincing priest than Bing Crosby ever did. Call it blasphemy...

August 20, 2012

Drawing A Line on SB 1172

When considering California's Senate Bill 1172, which, if passed and signed into law, would prohibit...

August 16, 2012

My Nunophobia

I have never known a habited nun. Oh, I know they're out there. I've seen...

August 16, 2012

Has Ryan Saved the Republic?

Paul Ryan's hometown bishop has defended him. The bishop of Lansing, Michigan and the archbishop...

August 13, 2012

Mourning My Father and (In Some Ways) A Gentler Time

I woke up Saturday morning in a funk. In itself, this is nothing unusual. But,...

August 08, 2012

Can Atheists Make Us All Sing “Kumbaya”?

To the average Irish person, it might come as a surprise that William III of...

August 06, 2012

Chaput and the Republic of Chickens

These days, Philadelphia archbishop Charles Chaput has been showing signs of America fatigue. "Democracy," he...

August 03, 2012

Romoeroticism for Straight Guys

In Crisis Magazine, Eve Tushnet argues that the Catholic Church has something unique to offer...

July 2012

July 17, 2012

The Science of Saintly Mashups

Something frivolous. A mashup, according to Wiki, is "a work of fiction which combines a...

July 15, 2012

Fair Play for Patriarchies

It's easy to draw parallels between Penn State's pedophilia scandal and the Church's. It's also...

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...

July 10, 2012

Is Modest Hottest for Churches?

The first Catholic church I ever entered as an adult was St. Mary's, in Tempe,...

July 05, 2012

The Boy Magdalen

It always tickled me that Oscar Wilde and Maria Goretti share a birthday. (It's October...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

The Perils of Self-Esteem

Imagine a nation's armies have suffered the most catastrophic and humiliating defeat imaginable. Generals once...

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