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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,...

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,...

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...

October 2013

October 01, 2013

You Can Lead a Beggar to Bread: Pope Francis on Evangelization & Proselytism

It's Tuesday, and Pope Francis is smacking gobs again. We're still waiting for a...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Quick, Martha, Your Girdle! Slaying the Beast of Internet Ordure

What with so many heads 'splodin' in so many directions this morning---see this wise,...

July 06, 2013

Five for Joy: Michael, Mary’s Mantle, and Other Saturday Mysteries

After a week of quiet for prayer, work, and celebration, I'm back with a First...

May 2013

May 10, 2013

Catholic and Crazy: The Asylum of Faith

When you're locked in a rubber room, wearing paper pajamas that leave far too little...

April 2013

April 08, 2013

Something New, Something Other: An Annunciation Diptych

Today we celebrated the Solemnity of the Annunciation, liturgically transferred from March 25 this year...

April 06, 2013

Oh, Mercy, Mercy Me, Still

From last year, slightly updated, my tangled relationship with the Divine Mercy devotion: Oh the...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Showing the Beauty of Virtue: Don Bosco’s Legacy of Care

In a week when the scandal of clerical abuse of young people is again in...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

The Cleaning Crew: 3 Advent Allies for Spiritual Warriors

So here I am, sitting in the clean and light-filled kitchen of my new apartment...

October 2012

October 05, 2012

The Village of St Bernadette: Egregious Twaddle on Pilgrimage

"There was everything hostile to my peace---an incalculable crowd, an oppressive heat, dust, noise, weariness;...

October 03, 2012

Climb Ev’ry Mountain: Egregious Twaddle on Pilgrimage

An hour in the Pyrenees, and you suddenly understand the deep ties between geography and...

October 02, 2012

Bilocation, Chocolate, and the Patron Saint of Pilgrims: Egregious Twaddle on Pilgrimage

Pilgrim Pop Quiz: What's the oldest Christian pilgrimage shrine in Europe? Hint: It's associated with...

September 2012

September 21, 2012

Castles in Spain: Egregious Twaddle on Pilgrimage

To build castles in Spain is an 800-year-old idiom meaning to daydream, to indulge in...

September 08, 2012

Happy Birthday, Dear Mary!

As with any family stories, some of the best family stories of our faith are...

August 2012

August 11, 2012

Chiara, Lady of Light: A Renewed Prayer for Guidance in the Nun Wars

UPDATE: I wrote this reflection on St Clare two years ago, at the start...

July 2012

July 21, 2012

Magdalene the Magnificent

With the exception of that other Mary, the Mother of Jesus, she's the most famous...

July 14, 2012

Invoking the Pig Man: A St Swithun’s Day Card

Tomorrow is St Swithun's Day, and it can't come to soon for our parched part...

February 2012

February 01, 2012

Bacon and Butter and Bathtub Beer: Why the Church Needs St Brigid, Bad

UPDATE: It's Lá Fhéile Bríde, the Feast of Brigid, and last year's post is no less...