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January 2016

January 11, 2016

In Defense of “Sob-Signaling”

Spectator columnist Julie Burchill is ordering her readers: “Please spare us the sob signaling over...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

ISIS Should Get Its Own Patheos Channel

ISIS’s magazine, Dabiq, preaches mainly to the choir. As Robert Evans observes in Cracked, its...

October 2015

October 17, 2015

“Radical Loneliness” and the Parable of the Frozen Octopus

September 2015

September 26, 2015

Contra Bill Maher

Try as I might, I just can’t dislike Bill Maher, probably because we represent the...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

Walter Palmer and the Post-Mercy Society

As of this writing, tens of thousands of Americans have signed an online petition to...

July 17, 2015

“Without Getting All Freakish About It”

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

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Give Me A Palanca, and I’ll Move the World

Just this evening one of my readers PM’d me over Facebook and asked me to...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

Phoenix: Civilizations Clash at Twilight

If you were up for some fun mischief – say, if you wanted to set...

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 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 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...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Mike Huckabee, Pope Francis, and the Rise of Mother Manners

It seems a terrible waste in a man whose name is basically a dirty limerick...

April 2014

April 10, 2014

Running in Bursa

It would be nice to report that I begin every morning with a four-mile run,...

February 2014

February 08, 2014

Looking the Dead in the Face

In December, 1960, a detachment of French Foreign Legion paratroopers killed three FLN rebels thought...

October 2013

October 11, 2013

Thanking God for Crickets Thanking God

Late one evening a couple of months ago, when Valley nights were still sultry, I...

September 2013

September 07, 2013

Is Big Father Watching Us?

In one scene from Annie Hall, Alvy (Woody Allen) finds his argument with Annie (Diane...

September 04, 2013

A Humorous Proposition

Never snort coke with a choleric. I learned that lesson during my misspent youth, which...

September 02, 2013

We’ve Got A Live One

The very day I wrote in praise of Catholic doodads, a friend of mine, having...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Learning to Read Chesterton

A couple of days ago, in drawing a contrast to Pope Francis, National Catholic Reporter's...

April 2013

April 14, 2013

Kermit Gosnell and the Bursting Bubble

On LifeNews, Jill Stanek offers a good summary of the media establishent's recent come-to-Jesus moment....

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...

February 2013

February 11, 2013

Father of Mine: A Lenten Reflection

If you grew up in an average occidental family, chances are excellent that at some...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

The $*(#$ing Power of Vulgarity

I don't have my copy of Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night on my lap....

January 04, 2013

Praying for Jennifer Fulwiler and Breaking the Gadget

Readers: When I wrote this piece, all the news I'd received on Jennifer Fulwiler's condition...

December 2012

December 14, 2012

Murder, We Posted

I was out when news of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School first...

December 11, 2012

“We” Ennui and the “I” Revolution

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

December 04, 2012

Skype: the Open Confessional

The Pope's on Twitter. The secular press is running profiles of Catholic bloggers. It's starting...

November 2012

November 21, 2012

To the Pit Crew on My Faith Journey

So I check Facebook this morning and see that Joanne McPortland has posted a link....

November 17, 2012

Back in the Fold

If Susan Pevensie from the Chronicles of Narnia were a real person (or if I...

September 2012

September 04, 2012

Charity Toward All…Even the Uncharitable

A number of Catholic media outlets have chosen this week to issue their regularly scheduled...

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