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January 2016

January 26, 2016

Lent for the Reluctant Ascetic

I grew up in the days before Velcro. By persisting to the age of five...

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...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Why Grow Up When You Can Be Christian?

“One cannot really be a Catholic and grown-up,” wrote George Orwell in an essay on...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Jean Ousset: The Wit and Wisdom of A Wingnut

In the days before e-mail, dashing off a few words to a friend or a...

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 11, 2015

Nicholas Christakis: Too Much Obsequiousness Is A Dangerous Thing

Boy, am I ever out of touch. Yesterday, when I begged compassion and mercy on...

November 05, 2015

On All Souls’ Day: A Plenary Indulgence for Dad

My father has been dead for more than 13 years, but every once in a...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Video: The Nymph of the Swimming Pool

September 2015

September 13, 2015

Blank Slate: Free Tattoo Removal Helps Strip off Badges of Sin

One evening in Moscow, I happened to glance at the hand of the man I...

September 10, 2015

“I’m A Christian, but…but Nothing.”

Buzzfeed’s latest viral video, titled “I’m Christian, but I’m Not…,” features five spruce twentysomethings who...

August 2015

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 07, 2015

Farther, My God, from Thee: The Life of Faith for Short People

The average American man stands 5’9 ½ tall. The average non-Hispanic white American man stands...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

Of Sheep, Sheepdogs, and Self-Love

In The National Review, David French takes aim at the Washington, D.C. Metro passengers who...

July 17, 2015

“Without Getting All Freakish About It”

This is a story about saints and signs, and how the right word to the...

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 20, 2015

God and Dylann Roof: Beyond Strength and Weakness

Dylann Roof, who has confessed to gunning down the pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...

June 18, 2015

In Charleston: AME Martyrs of Charity

Earlier today, someone set fire to the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and...

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...

May 22, 2015

A Palm for Romero, A Finger Wagged at the World

The Church’s decision to beatify Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez as a martyr shows just...

May 21, 2015

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: All out of Mercy?

For me – and, I suspect, for many people – defense witnesses’ pleas for Dzhokhar...

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...

May 09, 2015

Splitting the Difference on the Mercy Logo

Yes, the logo for the Year of Mercy is an eyesore -- and that’s if...

May 06, 2015

Revenge Porn for the Righteous

In its Christmas, 2014 issue, the Catholic literary magazine Dappled Things published a link to...

May 04, 2015

I Have Heard You Calling in the Night

The voice came in the quietest part of the night, and it was loud enough...

May 03, 2015

Phoenix and the Prophetic Life for Beginners

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece titled “Heaven in the Jungle” about...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

Coda: Jordan, An Unpretentious Little Palace

It happens all the time in Jordan: You’re cruising on some road, gazing up at...

February 2015

February 15, 2015

Lent and the Lame Evangelist

I’ve been warned that wearing a cross openly in Turkey means asking for trouble. There’s...

February 05, 2014

Adventures in Acedia

It would begin in April, when the stiff winds first mellowed into a breeze and...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

My Eucharistic Breakfast

Last night, for the first time in many months, I took a drink. Beneath the...

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...

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