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January 2012

January 06, 2012

Diary of A Wimp (Who is Catholic)?

In a recent South Park episode, an anti-statist milita group decides to strike a blow...

January 05, 2012

Advice to Santorum: Remember the Catacombs!

It's a shame nobody's given Cardinal George credit for rhetorical restraint. When he warned of...

January 02, 2012

Tintin and the Mystical Body of Christ

In his big-screen debut, Tintin won't be picketing any abortion clinics, or testifying before Congress...

December 2011

December 21, 2011

After Kateri, No More Flower Children

With a second miracle to her credit, Kateri Tekawitha’s 331-year wait for sainthood is finally...

December 19, 2011

Oscar Wilde’s Tomb: Let Processions Come Hither

Oscar Wilde was a people person. When Patience, Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera spoofing the aesthetic...

December 15, 2011

Elf on the Shelf: Scrupulosity for Unbelieving Tots

Today in Slate, Torie Bosch describes how non-religious parents are using the children’s book Elf...

December 14, 2011

A Depressed Solipsist’s Guide to Prayer Vigils

Having what a vocations director might describe as an active temperament, I have always, half-consciously,...

December 05, 2011

A Merry Post-Modern Christmas

Can anyone hear the song “Bells of St. Mary’s” without remembering the scene in Goodfellas...

November 2011

November 28, 2011

The Lord is My Mentor…

Well, having lived through it once, I have to say that the new Mass translation...

November 24, 2011

A Cardinal’s Brutal Homily

My mother lives on the second floor of a high-rise apartment building on West End...

November 18, 2011

Aging and Single, Self-Reproachful and Relieved

You know you’re in extremis as far as marriageability goes when you find yourself composing...

November 16, 2011

Andrew Sullivan: Model of a Modern, Bearded, Gay, Tory Blogger

I don't read Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish on a daily basis, or even on a...

November 12, 2011

Would You Like Some Precious Blood with That, Sir?

I've found at least one advantage in having the Most Reverend Thomas J. Olmsted as...

November 07, 2011

Between Heaven and Mirth…and Snark

I'm proud to report that my patron and heavenly protector, St. Francis de Sales, delivered...

November 06, 2011

Lego Advent Calendar

All right, you happy culture warriors, keep your powder dry. Wait until Thanksgiving before you...

November 04, 2011

The Catholic Pundits Drinking Game

According to a recovery protocol I just made up, when a person is rounding out...

October 2011

October 31, 2011

The Accents of Holiness

I thought all Irish-born American priests were dead and gone, surviving solely on celluloid --...

October 27, 2011

Qadaffi, Video, and the Magic of Martyrdom

If you're going to kill a bad man, you might as well put on a...

October 26, 2011

Cardinal Turkson: Beyond Wall Street

By now, it's been pretty well established that “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary...

October 19, 2011

Lacrosse: Sport of the North American Martyrs

Rugby is a gentleman's sport played by savages; lacrosse is a savage's sport played by...

October 17, 2011

Cartoons and the Pious Mind

James Thurber claimed that he first gained a sense of the surreal from hearing the...

October 12, 2011

Snob in a Sacred Space

I can't believe I'm saying this openly, but last Sunday, for the first time ever,...

October 10, 2011

The Church, the Dirty War and Taking Bad News

Argentina's Guerra Sucia, or Dirty War, didn't get that name by accident. From 1976, when...

October 08, 2011

Martin Sheen: Broken, Bowed and Happy

Making Apocalypse Now pulled Martin Sheen into the heart of his own personal darkness. His...

September 2011

September 25, 2011

Phoenix Goes Dry; I Weep

In a Bill Mauldin cartoon that ran in Stars and Stripes during World War Two,...

September 21, 2011

The Meanest Jesus Ever

In her short story "Parker's Back," Flannery O'Connor describes the reaction of a tattoo aficionado...

September 13, 2011

A Lesson from Fr. Pavone: How to Behave on the Carpet

When I saw, on the Anchoress Blog, that Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life...

September 10, 2011

City of Veronicas

Of all the Church's dubious pious traditions, my favorite is the story of the Veronica...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Today’s Church: As Good for Liberals as it’s Gonna Get?

Having read the signs of the times, Antonio Celso de Queiros, bishop emeritus of Catanduva...

August 29, 2011

How to Really Give a Good Sermon

This week, via video, an America Magazine commentator plugs Fr. Roy Shelly's formula for a...

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