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September 30, 2011

Wanted for Baseball: A Strong Pope

To all appearances, the Boston Red Sox broke their curse once and for all during...

September 23, 2011

The Addict Saint

When I taught ESOL in China, the first thing that struck me was the English...

September 10, 2011

City of Veronicas

Of all the Church's dubious pious traditions, my favorite is the story of the Veronica...

August 2011

August 09, 2011

The Loopy Fun of Popular Piety

In today's Patheos column, I write about popular piety, how the forms of devotion that...

July 2011

July 23, 2011

St. Anthony and the Contact Lenses

Readers have noted, with varying amounts of good and ill-will, that some of my blog...

July 07, 2011

The Patron Saint of Celebrity Crime Casualties

A word to the wise: don't ask NCR's Michael Sean Winters if he's been keeping...

June 2011

June 22, 2011

Wimbeldon Head: No Grunting, Please. We’re British

The chief executive of the All England Lawn and Tennis Club wants Wimbeldon competitors to...

June 16, 2011

Fr. Corapi Announces Announcement

Yesterday evening, on the Deacon's Bench, the lovely and talented Deacon Greg Kandra announced that...

June 13, 2011

St. Francis, My Father, and Me

I don't normally write anything heart-warming, but last Thursday, the day my weekly Patheos column...

June 01, 2011

Marian Devotion for Uptight Anglos

A friend of mine, a woman from the deep South who belongs to something called...

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