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May 2014

May 06, 2014

A Backwards Catechism

This excellent post from A Queer Calling has been getting a lot of attention: ...First,...

May 03, 2014

“Stuff Christian Singles Hear”

I'm late to this party, but come on, "Jesus is your girlfriend now!" is genius:

April 2014

April 27, 2014

Transported in Time: Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney

So I'm in Sydney, and it's amazing. Beautiful weather (and what I'm gonna call sublime...

April 25, 2014

The Mask of Obedience

Last year I wrote this really scattershot, unsatisfying post about "The Beauty of Obedience," rescuing...

April 25, 2014

“Hideous Strength”: I review “Degenerate Art” at the Neue Galerie

for AmCon: Leave it to the Nazis to make charity posters into advertisements for power-worship....

April 24, 2014

King of Cups: Rereading Tim Powers’s “Last Call”

Fantasist (and mackerel-snapper, if we're counting) Tim Powers does high-concept tales in which hard-bitten characters...

April 15, 2014

Good Friday: Anglican Abp Justin Welby on “Getting the Answer You Didn’t Want”

Powerful stuff.

April 15, 2014

Today in Perverse Incentives…

Man writes article against internet-as-parish, fills it with links to intriguing websites: ...It is unhealthy...

April 13, 2014

Roderick Mead’s St Michael for the Modern Age

ehhhh image removed under penalty of law--look it up! via the extraordinary Monster Brains

April 03, 2014

“Everything in the Gospels Is About the Mass”: PEG Writes Your Homily for You!

Service journalism: I’m a very very beginning exegete, and the sort of Exegesis 101 rule...

April 02, 2014

Fine, I Admit It, I Like This One

"And then he rose from the dead. True story." Found here; some of the others...

March 2014

March 29, 2014

Poor Little Rich Christian: Hulu’s Intermittently-Insightful “Rev.”

“First let's say morning prayer. But let's say it quietly, in case somebody here has...

March 29, 2014

From “The New Evangelization”

Jesus does not really make chaos or problems. He stirs up existing problems and makes...

March 28, 2014

Squid Video, Vaticanomics, Francis vs the Doctors, African Fiction: Four Friday Things

The things I've been reading. This week's theme is "Things I Know Little About." Inebriate...

March 28, 2014

In Which I’m Inspired by Direct Mail. Really.

I just finished The New Evangelization: 2003 - 2013 Missionary Letters, which is basically a...

March 24, 2014

Welcome PEG. Inebriate Him!

The super fun Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry joins us at Patheos, and takes his blog title from...

March 23, 2014

John L. Allen, Jr. on Pope Francis’s Anti-Abuse Commission

here: Francis also showed sensitivity by ensuring that a victim was part of the team,...

March 23, 2014

Videos on Homosexuality and Chastity in the Catholic Church

I'm in this: What you’ll find here are videos by a group of faithful gay...

March 19, 2014

“Actively Cultivating a Celibate Vocation”: A Queer Calling

with some excellent points: ...Get to know people who live a celibate vocation Finding active...

March 16, 2014

From an Interview w/Rene Girard

in First Things: In a way, Christianity is the end of archaic religions because it...

March 15, 2014

Lenten Linkfest: Includes One Actual Lent Link.

Mudblood Catholic a) echoes the novel I'm working on and b) frightens me, via CS...

March 13, 2014

Yet More Gay Catholic Whatnot

Enough is never enough of Gay Catholic Stuff. Anyway here's a bunch of the Usual...

March 13, 2014

“Coming Out Catholic: The Movie”: Me at AmCon

on a truly excellent film: At the Level Ground film festival the other weekend, I...

March 12, 2014

The Sleazy Moral Greatness of “Phone Booth”

Last night I watched Phone Booth, the 2003 thriller (brilliantly directed by Joel Schumacher, for...

March 11, 2014

From “Priests Among Men,” by Emmanuel Celestin Cdl Suhard

a reader notes that MacIntyre may have been paraphrasing or quoting this guy: To be...

March 10, 2014

Catholics on the Arabian Peninsula, Three Mistakes About Francis, and More

from John L. Allen, Jr.: From the “not what you might expect” files, here’s a...

March 10, 2014

From John Cardinal Newman, “Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. 4”

from Sermon 20: Consider for an instant. Let every one who hears me ask himself...

March 08, 2014

“Inside the Cloister”: Casey N. Cep on Joy Within the “Jesus Cage”

in the New Yorker: ...The community at Rockford, one of around fifty or so in...

March 08, 2014

The Martyrs’ Rose

Given my whole thing with roses, you know I had to link you to this.

March 08, 2014

Today’s Saint: John of God

Patron of the sick. Here's a painting by Murillo: and here's the obvious Shane McGowan...