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August 2015

August 26, 2015

Amends: A Novel, Reviewed

Eve Tushnet’s debut novel, Amends, is a novel of ideas – the ideas she’s been...

August 15, 2015

St. Maximilian and the Two Crowns

A couple of my readers reminded me that yesterday was the feast day of St....

August 11, 2015

When the Customer Was Wrong

Like most of the stylists on the floor, she was young – probably about 22....

May 2015

May 25, 2015

Are We Ready for Our “Holocaust Literature” Yet?

This past Saturday on Facebook, a friend of mine posted an e-mail forwarded her from...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

“Sorry, Guys, Still Catholic”

On November 19, Salon ran a piece by a Catholic re-vert named Kaya Oakes titled...

November 18, 2013

Review: The Thorny Grace of It And Other Essays for Imperfect Catholics

They tell me Brian Doyle is a Catholic. And it seems he's conned an awful...

October 2013

October 21, 2013

Wherein I Finally Try Tolkien

"You sound gayer than the gayest elf in Mirkwood," an angry reader once wrote me....

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Learning to Read Chesterton

A couple of days ago, in drawing a contrast to Pope Francis, National Catholic Reporter's...

April 2013

April 18, 2013

Fun with Muslims

Mr. D. was choking. Clutching his throat and gagging, he mananged to spit out a...

April 16, 2013

For the Love of Conspiracy Theorists

Though not religious in any conventional way, Rick, my best friend, believes strongly in a...

March 2013

March 11, 2013

Addicted to Faith Films

You’ve got to hand it to St. Augustine. In his Confessions, he records his evolution...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

The $*(#$ing Power of Vulgarity

I don't have my copy of Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night on my lap....

December 2012

December 11, 2012

“We” Ennui and the “I” Revolution

For all I know, Catholic social critics would do away with adolescence and young adulthood...

September 2012

September 17, 2012

A Slight Shift in Direction

Over the past week, I've produced one current-events analysis of just over 1,000 words, and...

August 2012

August 23, 2012

Confessions of a Lowbrow

Frank Sinatra made a more convincing priest than Bing Crosby ever did. Call it blasphemy...

July 2012

July 17, 2012

The Science of Saintly Mashups

Something frivolous. A mashup, according to Wiki, is "a work of fiction which combines a...

May 2012

May 15, 2012

Sendak’s Not-so-Wild Things

Researching last week's piece on tattooing revived somewhat my old interest in Polynesian culture. With...

April 2012

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....

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 18, 2012

Cats, Mice, Dogs and the Quest for Joy

Heigh-ho, gang. Over here at Diary of A Wimpy Catholic, it's been a melancholic week...

March 02, 2012

Dream of the Red Hat: Or, Asia’s Revenge

Jeremy Lin is a consciousness-raiser. Jay Caspian Kang claims never to have seen "the Asian...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

To My Readers

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

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 16, 2012

Readers and Writers on Social Media: In Each Other’s Heads

A few months ago, Peggy Noonan made my day -- my whole week, in fact...

January 08, 2012

Is There Life Without the Like Button?

Ah, Nemesis. Swift-flying, gimlet-eyed hangwoman of the gods. You really got me good this time,...

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 29, 2011

Cautionary Tales for Adults

Seven years before Uncle Tom’s Cabin hit the shelves, a German psychiatrist named Heinrich Hoffmann...

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 17, 2011

Oedipus in the Heartland, Choruses in the Combox

Last night, the Anchoress blogged on a peculiar prank that parents, in collusion with the...

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...

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