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December 2011

December 05, 2011

Catholic Jokes: Good, and Good for You

This evening, in honor of Fr. Jim Martin's new book, Between Heaven and Mirth, my...

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 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 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 17, 2011

Cartoons and the Pious Mind

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

September 2011

September 29, 2011

Beware the Coach with An Artistic Temperament

High school football just went gothic. After Marcellus High’s junior varsity squad lost a game,...

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...

July 2011

July 10, 2011

Bring on the Dirt!

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

July 08, 2011

Scolding the Scolds, Cuddling the Curmudgeons

Yesterday, a friend and I were talking about a columnist whose work she esteems to...

July 08, 2011

Who Is John Galt? John Corapi, Of Course!

Yesterday, I noted approvingly that Fr. Gerard Sheehan, Fr. John Corapi's SOLT superior, condemned Corapi...

June 2011

June 15, 2011

How to REALLY Write for First Things

For the past two years, I’ve had a passionate love-hate relationship with First Things. When...

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 12, 2011

What do Phil Spector and Sarah Palin Have in Common?

They're both gun lovers who look good in heels? Well, yes, but less obviously, they've...

June 11, 2011

Gepetto: Helicopter Parent

Slow news day -- or at any rate, slow brain day. This McSweeney's piece by...

June 06, 2011

Eek! A YA Novel!

Change your maps: the YA section is the new Gommorah, at least according to Meghan...

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