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February 2012

February 27, 2012

The Silence of Doris Valentin

I finally saw The Artist on Saturday, and for a full 24 hours I was...

February 26, 2012

Constantine’s “Gift”

First Sunday of Lent Station at San Giovanni in Laterano Trivia question: What's the pope's...

February 25, 2012

Sausage and Peppers: Losing My Lunch and a Friend

There's nothing like projectile vomiting and the loss of a friendship to kick off a...

February 23, 2012

Armchair Pilgrimage, Lenten Edition

Last year, during my first revert Lent, I explored lots of the same spiritual practices...

February 22, 2012

Dust, Remember: A Memento Mori

Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. It's Ash Wednesday, and...

February 18, 2012

Up on the Tight Wire: Taking Catholicism Seriously

I'm up on the tight wire One side's ice and one is fire It's a...

February 14, 2012

My Gnostic Valentine

I believe in doing what I can Crying when I must, laughing when I choose...

February 13, 2012

Chill, Catholics! It’s Just a Minajerie

I was watching (and falling asleep during, after a working weekend) Downton Abbey, so I...

February 11, 2012

“Go to Her”: Our Lady of Lourdes and the Power of Marian Apparitions

Go to her, you who are crushed by material misery, defenseless against the hardships of...

February 09, 2012

Barking Cheerleaders, Wandering Wombs

While he was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him,...

February 07, 2012

A Heart Set on Pilgrimage

Even the sparrow has found a home, the swallow a nest to place its young:...

February 03, 2012

A Fishbone Athwart My Throat

Through the intercession of Saint Blase, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every...

February 02, 2012

“Let Us Be Made Radiant”

If Candlemas day be dry and fair The half of winter's to come, and mair...

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...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

Sometimes Faith Is a Walk in the Park

I really didn't mean to keep writing about the HHS mandate and the reaction it...

January 30, 2012

It’s Not the Contraceptives, Stupid–UPDATED

Important updates to a continuing story. At the Patheos Catholic Portal, Sr Mary Ann Walsh,...

January 28, 2012

Summa Lovin’ (Happened So Slow)

Tell me more, tell me more Was it love at first sight? Not hardly. And...

January 26, 2012

It’s Not the Contraceptives, Stupid

If it weren't for logic, I'd be a lawyer now--or so I tell myself. When...

January 25, 2012

“With Grounded Hope”

In his homily at Vespers on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul today,...

January 25, 2012

Falling in Love Again, and Again, and Again

Every heart, every heart to love will come but like a refugee. ~ Leonard Cohen,...

January 24, 2012

Egregious Twaddle, Eloquent Silence

In case anyone wonders why I'm not taking up Max Lindenman's suggestion to rename this...

January 24, 2012

A Blogger Baptism

The baptismal font in St Peter's Basilica in Rome, made from an inverted porphyry sarcophagus...

January 22, 2012

I Have Met the Elephant, and It Is Me

Bernini's elephant base for the obelisk in front of the church of Santa Maria sopra...

January 21, 2012

The Elephant in the Pew

In the tangled journey home of this particular returning Catholic, this is one of the...

January 21, 2012

Girls in Love, Lambs to the Slaughter

It's the Eve of St. Agnes, and it's cold. Cold as the beginning of Keats' long...

January 19, 2012

The Ugliness of Smart? An Update Foiled

I thought I was going to squeeze out a win for Team Non-Beauty when I...

January 18, 2012

The Holiness of Beauty?

Two recent posts by friends have me revisiting a philosophical equation that troubles me even...

January 16, 2012

Wonder Bread

The essence of faith is that I do not meet with something that has been...

November 2011

November 27, 2011

Hit by an Unguided Missal

First Advent always seems to catch me wrong-footed, as the Brits say. Its cool, austere,...

April 2011

April 12, 2011

Revenge of the Periodic Table

I hate the periodic table. Or I thought I did. That yellowed chart flapping in...