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June 2012

June 20, 2012

Save the Kitsch!

Fr. Jim Martin is a brave man. He has made a personal crusade of re-interpreting...

May 2012

May 10, 2012

Life After Sex?

Yesterday, at the Crescat blog, Katrina Fernandez wrote that nobody has ever died from not...

May 01, 2012

A Confession About Confessions

It's a shame I wasn't in a church with an open confessional last Saturday. I...

April 2012

April 20, 2012

The Prophecy of Sister Laurie

Many observers have a hard time believing that the LCWR really was "stunned," as it...

April 14, 2012

Memories of A Man I’ll Call “Eddie”

Last night I learned another friend had fallen sick. This time, the illness was lymphoma....

April 12, 2012

Another Priest Weighs in Against Blessing Kids

After reading Fr. Cory Sticha's opinion piece on blessing kids in the Communion line, I...

April 09, 2012

Blisters in the Sun

If, this Easter morning, I failed to leap out of bed and sing the praises...

April 01, 2012

And I Saw the Priest Dance

Liturgical dancing! Even to speak the words means stirring the passions of anyone who believes...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

Romero and Sweet Schmaltz

A little more than halfway through the film Romero, the title character, played by Raul...

March 20, 2012

May Perpetual Wall Posts Shine Upon Them

I haven't visited my dad's grave since I helped -- per religious custom -- to...

March 16, 2012

Barbara Johnson and the Quality of Mercy

Okay, here's a list of the angles related to the Fr. Guarnizo controversy I'm not...

March 06, 2012

Just Desserts in the Desert

You can't beat the desert for a good parable. Early in March, about ten years...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

To My Readers

First of all, let me apologize for calling you all a niche market. When I...

February 23, 2012

Scales Falling from the Eyes: A Retention Experience

Eyes are basically testicles that sit in the middle of your head. Show either too...

February 20, 2012

The Parable of the Lost Basset Hound

My lady friend's family has been combing through my blog for evidence I'm a loser....

February 14, 2012

The Catholic Liberal’s Lament

Is Obama a moron, or evil Lord Sauron? Here Catholic opinion's divided: His accomodations of...

February 13, 2012

“She Made Opera out of Oprah”

When I was an undergrad, I sometimes chanced to meet up in the Student Recreation...

February 11, 2012

Obama’s Compromise: Something for Everyone?

Here's an old joke: Sometime in the 1930s, one Jew spots another Jew scanning an...

February 09, 2012

Trojan War A-Comin’?

In the battle over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Catholics are sitting on...

February 09, 2012

Make Way for Castro…on the Communion Line?

The international rumor mill has it that Fidel Castro -- El Jefe, El Commandante, or...

February 06, 2012

Catholics and the War on Football

When it comes to football and its risks, writes Ken Briggs in National Catholic Reporter,...

January 2012

January 26, 2012

Stepping out on a Patron Saint

I totally spaced my patron saint's feast day. Indeed, I might have gone all day...

January 23, 2012

A Fine New Place for Feeding

Joanne McPortland is one of those very rare, too-modest writers who deserves to be read...

January 23, 2012

Callista Gingrich: Sign of the Times?

James Dobson, scourge of Spongebob and the Teletubbies, has found a live target. Speaking this...

January 20, 2012

To Gingrich: A Little Less Honesty on Race, Please

The people in my mother's family, on the whole, have always been warm-hearted, decent and...

January 18, 2012

Tim Tebow: Nice Guy Becomes Clanging Symbol

Say whatever you like about Tim Tebow -- and my friend, the Broncos fan, says...

January 12, 2012

The Accidents of Appearance

If you want to quit worrying about your looks, there are worse places to be...

January 11, 2012

Beware the Everyday Epiphany

I keep a close watch on myself to make sure I don't succumb to magical...

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...

January 09, 2012

The Joys of Collusive Irreverence

When I say I have a crush on Thérèse of Lisieux, I'm two-thirds joking --...

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