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November 2013

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...

November 17, 2013

Review: Bad Catholic’s Guide to the Seven Deadly Sins

Whoever first compared a surfeit of fun to a barrel of monkeys and not a...

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...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

On Seeing A Young Drunk

I can never remember his name, but I do remember his job: He's an employment...

September 20, 2013

Are You A Blessed Imelda?

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

July 2013

July 12, 2013

How It Feels to Be Received Like Christ

The first thing I noticed about the vocational discernment retreat was the median age of...

July 05, 2013

Renunciations

For the better part of last month, my brain wouldn't work. Well, maybe that's putting...

April 2013

April 03, 2013

In Praise of the Carnival

As soon as I stepped out of my apartment Easter morning, I saw my upstairs...

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...

March 03, 2013

My Real Career: Fool in Christ?

The letter opened on an ominous note. "Dear Max," wrote the manager. "I wanted to...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Psalms Sung Blue

In the first few psalms, God comes across like a rogue cop in a James...

February 13, 2013

The Pilgrimage of Dorian Gray: My First Ash Wednesday

Following the Arizona Cardinals can feel like an endless meditation on the vanity of human...

December 2012

December 25, 2012

Melampus, the Nativity Basset Hound: Part One

Historians trace the basset hound back to the pack raised by St. Hubert of Liège,...

December 21, 2012

The Hidden Drama of Prayer

Yoking modern technology and oogedy-boogedy devotional practice, the website for the santuario in Nettuno, Italy,...

December 11, 2012

“We” Ennui and the “I” Revolution

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

October 2012

October 04, 2012

The Bull of Gubbio

A priest I used to know hated St. Francis bird baths. He was Italian-American; judging...

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...

July 05, 2012

The Boy Magdalen

It always tickled me that Oscar Wilde and Maria Goretti share a birthday. (It's October...

June 2012

June 20, 2012

Save the Kitsch!

Fr. Jim Martin is a brave man. He has made a personal crusade of re-interpreting...

April 2012

April 09, 2012

Blisters in the Sun

If, this Easter morning, I failed to leap out of bed and sing the praises...

March 2012

March 26, 2012

Romero and Sweet Schmaltz

A little more than halfway through the film Romero, the title character, played by Raul...

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 20, 2012

To Gingrich: A Little Less Honesty on Race, Please

The people in my mother's family, on the whole, have always been warm-hearted, decent and...

January 11, 2012

Beware the Everyday Epiphany

I keep a close watch on myself to make sure I don't succumb to magical...

January 09, 2012

The Joys of Collusive Irreverence

When I say I have a crush on Thérèse of Lisieux, I'm two-thirds joking --...

December 2011

December 21, 2011

After Kateri, No More Flower Children

With a second miracle to her credit, Kateri Tekawitha’s 331-year wait for sainthood is finally...

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...

October 2011

October 27, 2011

Qadaffi, Video, and the Magic of Martyrdom

If you're going to kill a bad man, you might as well put on a...

October 19, 2011

Lacrosse: Sport of the North American Martyrs

Rugby is a gentleman's sport played by savages; lacrosse is a savage's sport played by...

October 17, 2011

Cartoons and the Pious Mind

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

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