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August 2015

August 14, 2015

The Feast of the Assumption for the Downwardly Mobile

I almost always manage to skip Mass on the Feast of the Assumption. Although I...

July 2015

July 07, 2015

Alessandro Serenelli: Sinner for Our Time?

Yesterday, as Michelle Arnold and Simcha Fisher dutifully observed, was the Feast Day of St....

June 2015

June 18, 2015

Ramadan at the Mall

They say Ramadan opens with a rolling worldwide cannonade: each locality keeps its own cannon,...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

Convenience Store Apostolate

As I was walking home from Mass on the second Sunday in Lent, a woman...

August 2012

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 06, 2012

Chaput and the Republic of Chickens

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

December 2011

December 29, 2011

A Merry Middle-Class Christmas

Bob, my mother’s boyfriend, will argue that Happy Days jumped the shark several seasons before...

November 2011

November 23, 2011

Pepper-Spray Cop and the Humor of Despair

Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams thinks very highly of the "Pepper-Spray Cop" internet meme, which in...

October 2011

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 24, 2011

Vatican to Main Street, U.S.A.: The (Tea) Party’s Over

Poor Bill Donahue. The Catholic League president has made it his mission to rebut any...

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 11, 2011

The Cain Mutiny

The acronym TINA -- There Is No Other Alternative -- may explain Herman Cain's recent...

August 2011

August 30, 2011

Novels of the Great Recession

For a long time, critics were in the habit of complaining that American authors had...

August 08, 2011

America’s Financial Future: A Dirt Sandwich?

Today in Slate, William Saletan that our country's left-right ideological divode will soon be rendered...

August 02, 2011

Big Revolutionaries Don’t Cry

Of all the responses to Joe Biden's alleged comparison of Tea Party Republicans to terrorists,...

August 01, 2011

Obama’s Base Boos

Ross Douthat is a good sport. In today's column, he dissects President Obama's mistakes with...

June 2011

June 05, 2011

Despite Government’s Best Efforts, Unemployment Stinks

According to the New York Times, the federal government's programs to save unemployed homeowners from...

June 03, 2011

Our Stinking Economy: A View from the Bottom

It's pretty much unanimous: the economy will continue sucking for the foreseeable future. In Slate,...

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