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May 2015

May 20, 2015

Depressed and Catholic: Learning It’s OK to Live

If you "live with major depression," you understand what a paradoxical phrase that is. The...

May 01, 2015

No Good Guys, No Bad Guys: Fr Greg Boyle on the Policing We Need

I don't know anybody who's said this better. Whoever you are, whatever your politics or...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

5 Reasons Why Catholics (of All People!) Should Make Earth Day Holy

Today, Earth Day, should be a holy day of obligation for Catholics. That's not exactly...

December 2014

December 09, 2014

Dearest Pope Francis . . . Snap Out of It!

I love you dearly, Holy Father. But there's no denying you're overdue for an earful---a...

November 2014

November 24, 2014

Pope and African Bishops to Cardinal Kasper: “Can you hear us now?”

Presented for your consideration: Pope Francis has named Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea (which, for...

November 03, 2014

Brittany and Lauren: A Diptych for the Dying

Over this weekend of saints and souls, Brittany Maynard, diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, took...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

A Musical Birthday Card to (and from) St Teresa: No Worries

I am disturbed. I am affrighted. And I suspect I'm not alone. In the world,...

September 2014

September 05, 2014

A Little (Astonishing) Perspective as an Antidote to Dread

The world, it seems hard to deny, is on an express handbasket to hell. For...

August 2014

August 03, 2014

Don’t Judge a Bishop by His Residence (or the Pope’s)

I love Pope Francis. I don't love when the world---(including more than a few Catholics)---uses...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

The Magdalene’s Cave: Thoughts on Priesthood and Women

I've said it before. I am a Catholic woman who once believed, passionately and thoroughly,...

July 17, 2014

Looking East Clearly: More on Orthodox Divorce and Remarriage

My recent post on the "Orthodox solution" has provoked a lot of conversation here and on...

July 14, 2014

People, Look East: Exploring the Orthodox Experience of Divorce and Remarriage

We're divorced and remarried, but we love God and love the Church. Are we excommunicated?...

June 2014

June 11, 2014

Strange Bedfellows, and Real Questions About Sex–UPDATED

Yes, Planned Parenthood counselors enthusiastically provide "sex-positive" advice to teens who ask. What's more interesting...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

Two Saints, No Waiting: Pope-pourri on Canonization Eve

There's so much good stuff out there on Sunday's dual canonization of Popes John XXIII...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

I Was on Death Row, and You Walked with Me: Being Prolife out on the Margins

So a priest, a nurse, and a lawyer walk into a prison . ....

November 2013

November 22, 2013

Where We Were, When: One Boomer’s Apology for Carrying the Kennedy Torch

Long stood Sir Bedivere Revolving many memories, till the hull Look’d one black dot against...

November 18, 2013

The Hard Grace of Receiving: Prayers for the Margaret Marys, All

When the story of the hard life and lonely death of former Duquesne University adjunct...

October 2013

October 04, 2013

Hans Kueng and the Grace of a Good Death

Saw this Reuters story, Catholic rebel Kueng, 85, considers assisted suicide, today courtesy of...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Busting the Myth of Jesus-Myth Busting

When will writers bent on revealing the shocking / faith-shattering / never before heard or...

September 25, 2013

“Someone In the Family Is Suffering”

While we in the US---Catholics, the media---are still parsing and praying over last week's papal...

September 24, 2013

Oh, Lord, Come by Here!: Letting Our Longings Out

No matter how you spin it, the papal interview published last Thursday has prompted...

September 20, 2013

The Parable of the Papal Interview

Hear this! A pope went out to give an interview. And as he talked, some of...

September 18, 2013

The Demon in the Shadows: Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and an Adjunct’s Lonely Death

Two very different stories in my newsfeed this morning. Both are tragic. Each gets attention...

September 17, 2013

The Church and the Costa Concordia: A Lesson

Righting the ship. If you've been following the efforts to raise the wrecked Costa...

September 12, 2013

Hey, Who You Callin’ Egregious?: More on a Blog Name

In which Pope Francis gives me an inadvertent shout-out, and I get schooled in the...

September 11, 2013

The Power of Names: 9-11, Nameless Children, and Deportees

Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her...

September 02, 2013

On Labor Day, Saying Thank You

Are you off today for the Labor Day holiday? Don't forget to say thanks. Thank...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

Susie Q, the Dancing Angel

Medieval theologians---so goes the cliche---spent a lot of time arguing about how many angels...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

Adios, Wretched Hive of Bile and Gluttony

I've been tag-teamed this month by a deadly sin and a medieval disease. I think...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

More Kind, More Demanding: Seeking the Way to Witness on Same-Sex Marriage

This is an apology, but not a retraction. My most recent post---confessing to mixed...