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January 2016

January 03, 2016

Girls at the Altar: Decompressing A Condensed Symbol

Yesterday, Michelle Arnold, a Patheos colleague, wrote in defense of altar service by girls and...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

On Going to Mass in A Pissy Mood

Masses: I’ve taken ‘em high, I’ve taken ‘em low. I’ve parked my mortal coil in...

June 2015

June 02, 2015

Why I’m Still Catholic

I was raised Freudian. My father was a psychoanalyst; my mother had, at various points...

April 2015

April 16, 2015

Stuff Melkites Like

Like “fundie” and “papist,” the label “Melkite” began as an insult. Deriving from the Arabic...

November 2013

November 05, 2013

Purgatory-Schmurgatory, As Long As You’re Hopeful

By the Council's 25th session, when the Trent Fathers finally got around to the subject...

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...

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...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Deluge

The clouds, low-hanging and swollen, were spilling in from the east and purpling the sky...

July 10, 2013

Francis’ Pontificate: No Rest for the Aesthetic-Minded?

You've got to hand it to Katrina Fernandez. Yesterday on the Crescat blog, she really...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Keep it Simple…For Now?

One day in the agora, tradition has it, Diogenes passed a group of spiffily dressed...

January 2013

January 20, 2013

Green Eggs and Ambo

In the film adaptation of Herman Wouk's World War Two novel, The Caine Mutiny, there's...

January 18, 2013

Next Stop: Trent?

This Sunday, I'm attending a Latin Mass. There, it's decided. I could hardly call myself...

August 2012

August 13, 2012

Mourning My Father and (In Some Ways) A Gentler Time

I woke up Saturday morning in a funk. In itself, this is nothing unusual. But,...

August 03, 2012

Romoeroticism for Straight Guys

In Crisis Magazine, Eve Tushnet argues that the Catholic Church has something unique to offer...

April 2012

April 12, 2012

Another Priest Weighs in Against Blessing Kids

After reading Fr. Cory Sticha's opinion piece on blessing kids in the Communion line, I...

April 01, 2012

And I Saw the Priest Dance

Liturgical dancing! Even to speak the words means stirring the passions of anyone who believes...

November 2011

November 28, 2011

The Lord is My Mentor…

Well, having lived through it once, I have to say that the new Mass translation...

September 2011

September 25, 2011

Phoenix Goes Dry; I Weep

In a Bill Mauldin cartoon that ran in Stars and Stripes during World War Two,...

July 2011

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...

June 2011

June 05, 2011

A Bad Catholic Defends Pie

I, of all people, have no right to make this kind of assumption, but I'm...

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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