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April 2016

April 24, 2016

Amoris Laetitia and the Family Road Trip

A confession: I’m in no hurry to get through Amoris Laetitia. Two hundred, sixty-four pages...

November 2015

November 11, 2015

For Veterans’ Day: Reflections on the Field-Hospital Church

A few years ago, Monsignor Charles Pope wrote a short essay defending the use of...

November 04, 2015

Generation Win: LGBT-Rights Supporters and Those Mad Enough to Resist Them

We’re living in a world where jocks use words like “relational” – and come to...

October 2015

October 17, 2015

“Radical Loneliness” and the Parable of the Frozen Octopus

October 08, 2015

Lessons from A Modern Family of Introverts

When I say I have no social skills, I mean I lack the flexibility to...

October 01, 2015

On Abstaining from Communion

The other week at Mass, I remained in the pew when everyone else got up...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Caught up (A Little) in the Francis Effect

A number of readers have offered negative feedback on my last piece. One was my...

September 28, 2015

Immune to the Francis Effect

Looking back over this past weekend, I’m not sure whether I can pinpoint the exact...

September 26, 2015

Contra Bill Maher

Try as I might, I just can’t dislike Bill Maher, probably because we represent the...

September 23, 2015

“His Holiness and Hizzoner” — Pope Francis and the Ghost of Ed Koch

Dear Blahblah You are an insufferable old bat. I don’t give a tuppeny damn what...

September 17, 2015

Pope Francis and the Barbarians

Eager to glimpse the big picture of Francis’ pontificate? Frustrated connecting the dots from soundbyte...

September 08, 2015

Pope Francis, Refugees, and the Big Levitical Beach Party

What irks me most about the guy is his grin, which is roguish, the mark...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

Margie Winters: The Making of A Rebel

When I first read the story of how Waldron Mercy fired Margie Winters, a lesbian...

July 2015

July 13, 2015

The Not-So-Simple Faithful

How do you welcome someone who’s convinced he holds the deed to your house? That’s...

July 10, 2015

Pope Francis and the Mommy Trap

The Holy Father is all about mothers. In Ecuador, he warned of a “mother wound,”...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

The Rising Cost of Price Tagging

Last Thursday, after arson damaged the administrative buildings of the historic Church of the Multiplication...

May 2015

May 18, 2015

New Arab Saints: A Fountain of Virtue to the Thirsty

The careful reader will note something forlorn in the words “Pope Francis presided over the...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Mike Huckabee, Pope Francis, and the Rise of Mother Manners

It seems a terrible waste in a man whose name is basically a dirty limerick...

January 24, 2015

Here We Go Again, Folks

Don’t tell anyone I’m writing. I’m supposed to be beavering away on a new curriculum...

January 25, 2014

Envy Without Shame

A few days ago I did something stupid. I Googled the guy whose sidekick I...

November 2013

November 24, 2013

Building the Kingdom in Bad Weather

In 1943, the UK's Catholic Herald reports, Léon Degrelle was excommunicated by the bishop of...

November 20, 2013

Vicino Riva’s Taste of Paradise

So it turns out the guy Pope Francis hugged and kissed to such great fanfare...

November 07, 2013

A Nameless Dignity

Am I the only one feeling uneasy about the coverage of Pope Francis and the...

November 02, 2013

The Ugliest Piece of Religious Art Ever

Here's a sampling of Facebook comments on Pope Francis' new ferula: "Okay, I think I...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Yes, He’s the Burying Kind

We should have buried Erich Priebke. Or rather, since protesters in Albano Laziale effectively derailed...

October 15, 2013

Who Moved My Chiesa: A Corporate Casualty’s Guide to Getting Along with Priests

Meghan and I are about the same age, but for several years, scarcely a day...

October 01, 2013

On Meeting a Young Drunk Again

The next time I saw him, it was about six in the morning. He was...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

The Church and the Cracked Kettle

My parish's associate pastor comes from the Phillipines. At Sunday Mass, I sit only about...

September 20, 2013

Are You A Blessed Imelda?

It was one of those happy misunderstandings I come by whenever I have to speed-read...

September 07, 2013

Is Big Father Watching Us?

In one scene from Annie Hall, Alvy (Woody Allen) finds his argument with Annie (Diane...

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