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June 2016

June 05, 2016

Homesickness for Alien Places

There are times when, after coming back from a sojourn overseas, we start pining for...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Simulations & Spouses

The popular philsophical writer Alain de Botton recently published an article in the New York...

May 23, 2016

Post-Materialism, Sacramentality & Marketing

A friend on social media once wondered out loud why a big telecommunications company would...

May 07, 2016

Prayer After “The World Spins Madly On”

Almighty God, You moved your servant to listen to "The World Spins Madly On" by...

May 02, 2016

Changes Afoot

The Divine Wedgie is currently in discussions with the Patheos Catholic blog channel to move the blog...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Meaty Souls & the Death of Prince

People die everyday, sometimes in great numbers at a single time, from wars, genocides,...

April 17, 2016

Catholic Social Dispatches

With all the intense hypervigilence and dissection of the recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Letitia,...

April 11, 2016

Hangry Eyes: Our Ravenous Seeing

Eric Carmans Hungry Eyes is an awfully corny song which, combined to the dance moves and...

April 03, 2016

When What We See Is What We Worship

The old saying goes that the “eyes are the windows to the soul”, and many...

March 2016

March 20, 2016

Dance & Transcendance

There is something uncanny about the subgenre of electronica broadly called "dance music". In sample...

February 2016

February 21, 2016

The Rampage of Sloth

Nowadays, we tend to associate the capital sin of sloth with laziness and listless inactivity....

February 15, 2016

New Essay: Sarah Coakley and the Prayers of the Digital Body of Christ

Janice McCrandal, lecturer in theology at Trinity Theological College in Brisbane, has edited a new...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

What the Incarnation Does to Consumption

Richard Aleman has taken over the helm of The Distributist Review, arguably one of the...

January 24, 2016

When a Dead Body Attends Mass

One morning, probably due to a combination of liturgical illiteracy and bad timing, a coffin...

January 16, 2016

Jesus, Jazz and Who We Are

A previous post explored the assertion by Lacanian psychoanalysis that a subject undergoes a kind...

December 2015

December 07, 2015

Fundamental Joy

It finally happened. In an interstate flight, the Pixar movie Inside Out was watched and,...

November 2015

November 22, 2015

Fascism, Simulation & Christ the King

In 1925, Pope Pius XI instituted the solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of...

November 14, 2015

Psychoanalysis & Death Through Language

To say that much of the world has lost the sacramental mode of viewing and...

November 09, 2015

The Dedication of St. John Lateran: Temple, Market & Apocalypse

The Gospel reading for the liturgy marking the feast of the dedication of the Basilica...

October 2015

October 24, 2015

The Porn Again Christian

Human sexuality is a vital thing in the Christian tradition. Set in a sacramental register,...

October 14, 2015

Being Someplace Else: The Theological Virtues & the Anime of Makoto Shinkai (Podcast Now Available)

In a previous post, mention was made of a presentation at the Caroline Chisholm Library...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Climate and Family: A Question of Covenant

Pope Francis has left North America to return to Rome, after a trip that brought...

September 21, 2015

Against Spirituality

Like everyone else, the Christian is subject to the onslaught of bad news flooding...

September 14, 2015

Speaking Dates in Victoria

Blogger at large at the Divine Wedgie, Matthew Tan, will be giving a series of...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

Being Someplace Else

In the anime film Children who Chase Lost Voices, we are introduced to a girl named...

August 07, 2015

The Liturgy of Hiroshima

In Theopolitical Imagination, William Cavanaugh described the nation state as a parody of the Church, with...

August 02, 2015

On Death and Pies

A homily at Sunday Mass drew attention to the link between sacramentality and food (a...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

The Media as Liturgy

A recent Spirit in the City day conference at the Queensland University of Technology featured the...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Laudato Si, Gay Marriage and the Whitered State

The release of Pope Francis' new encyclical has elicited a higher than usual volume...

June 08, 2015

Metaphysics & Pornography

A previous post mentioned how we now live in a world where possibilities trump realities,...