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August 2011

August 26, 2011

Georgetown: Conversions Down

We're not hitting our numbers. That's the gist of the latest report from Georgetown's Center...

August 22, 2011

For the Love of Living Latin

Here's a perfect gift for the Latin scholar in your life: a whole summer resurrecting...

August 21, 2011

Wanted: World Youth Day for Introverts

It's hard to imagine Flannery O'Connor at World Youth Day. As a child, she marked...

August 18, 2011

Ralph Branca: Remembering Jerusalem

The athlete whose career seems in retrospect to have been defined by an instance of...

August 16, 2011

A Thundering Squadron of Cassocks

This title barely qualifies as a pun. Cassock, the name for the clerical garment with...

August 15, 2011

Who Wouldn’t Want a Hapsburg?

Ib First Things, George Weigel calls Otto von Hapsburg, son of Austria-Hungary's last emperor, who...

August 10, 2011

News Flash: Catholics and Jews Still Largely Cool

In one of the Simpsons' earlier seasons, Marge writes to the producers of Itchy and...

August 05, 2011

Clerical Narcissism: Myth or Mess?

"Narcissist" is the new n-word. Unmatched for versatility, it can mean everything from "won't text...

August 03, 2011

How to Have a Good Spiritual Childhood

My RCIA class held the three-hour retreat that preceded Easter Vigil, and our admission to...

July 2011

July 31, 2011

Buddhists Need Own Dallas Charter

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Buddhist monks are facing allegations of sex abuse; that...

July 21, 2011

How to be a Non-Communing Catholic

A certain daydream comes upon me whenever some ranking churchman makes a sally in the...

July 20, 2011

A Long Chat with Archbishop Chaput

Did you hear about the bishop who was so conservative that he wanted Congress to...

July 14, 2011

Evangelical Lutherans: Pope is Antichrist, Okay Guy

In yesterday's Atlantic, Joshua Green reports that the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, which Michelle Bachmann...

July 10, 2011

Bring on the Dirt!

What a prince Bill Keller is. In reviewing John Julius Norwich's Absolute Monarchs, he warns...

July 02, 2011

Four Cool Things About Cardinal Scola

An old Catholic axiom holds that whoever enters the conclave a papabile, leaves a cardinal....

July 01, 2011

Pyx in the (Former) Sticks

Probably, this will fail to shock most of my readers, but....Christopher Hitchens doesn't seem to...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

The New Orthodoxy: Gays Good, Abortion Bad

According to a smarmy truism, you can make God laugh by telling Him your plans....

June 26, 2011

Swansong for St. Martin of Tours, the Bronx

On Friday, the New York Times ran a feature article on St. Martin of Tours,...

June 23, 2011

Belfast: Troublesome Once More

Yahoo! News reports: Dublin, Ireland – Rioting engulfed the Short Strand district of Belfast, Northern...

June 17, 2011

Adoration Angst: Christ Before My Eyes, Fr. McBrien in My Head

Once, when I was a teenager (right after the Visigoths swept through Rome on spring...

June 16, 2011

American Women Religious: Off the Barricades, Into the Boardroom?

A good part of the media played up the Vatican's recent Apostolic Visitation of American...

June 16, 2011

Fr. Corapi Announces Announcement

Yesterday evening, on the Deacon's Bench, the lovely and talented Deacon Greg Kandra announced that...

June 16, 2011

Barack Obama: Bully and Cad?

Remember back when right-wing bloggers were terrifying each other, predicting that President Obama would build...

June 14, 2011

…Then Someone’s Not Being: A Reply to Elizabeth

Today, in First Things, my mentor, gaffer and friend Elizabeth Scalia does a very gutsy...

June 13, 2011

St. Francis, My Father, and Me

I don't normally write anything heart-warming, but last Thursday, the day my weekly Patheos column...

June 13, 2011

Why I Think Mormons Are Swell Eggs

Newsweek reports that America is “having a Mormon moment." Followers of the Church of Jesus...

June 09, 2011

Wanted: Tales from “Blah” Marriages

The Pew Research Center reports that millennials -- adults aged 18 to 29 -- think...

June 07, 2011

Man Declines to Serve as Deacon Under Finn

How to remonstrate with a bishop? The Church is not a democracy, nor even a...

June 05, 2011

Hooked on Natural Death

On its website, Zoe Carter Fitzgerald's memoir, Imperfect Endings, is billed as "the uplifting story...

June 04, 2011

The Sign of Peace for Needy Misanthropes

In National Catholic Register, self-professed introvert Jennifer Fulwiler advises other people-shy Catholics on how to...

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