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May 2018

May 15, 2018

Catherine Addington on the Limited Imagination of the Met Gala

and the broadness of actual Catholic tradition: But given this year’s theme, the limited gender...

May 09, 2018

“Medieval Rites and Contemporary Dying”: Church Life Journal

is playing my song: The immediate response to death in many medieval communities was song....

April 2018

April 13, 2018

I review “Addiction & Devotion in Early Modern England”

a book crafted, it would seem, utterly and precisely pour moi: The first addicts to...

April 13, 2018

Who’d Adam and Eve It?: More Postlapsarian Blues

I am delighted to report that Harrison Lemke is at it again. This indie music...

April 11, 2018

Catholic People’s Histories, Gay People’s Futures

So there are way more orthodox gay people, seeking to live in obedience to the...

March 2018

March 03, 2018

This Is an Amazing Retrospective Look at Jim and Tammy Faye Baker

and American religion, by Martyn Jones in the Weekly Standard: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker...

February 2018

February 25, 2018

Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned. It’s Been Two Hundred Years Since My Last Confession…

I stayed up 'til 1:30 this morning to finish Gabriel Blanchard's Victorian vampire novel, Death's...

February 17, 2018

By His Stripes We Are Healed: Re-reading St Anselm’s “Cur Deus Homo”

>In my project of revisiting my past in prayer, I've reached 1998, the year of...

February 08, 2018

“The Body & Society” Notes Part… 6 I Think: Blessed Are the Sleazoids

A book about the special honor accorded virgins, celibates, and others who renounced sex...

February 07, 2018

At Once Surrender and Victory: Postscripts to My Marquette Talk

So I spoke on Gay Catholic Whatnot at Marquette University last night, as part of...

February 05, 2018

“The Body & Society” Notes Pt 5: The Slave as Temple

On Saturday I ended up at a special Mass at which they blessed plaques honoring...

February 04, 2018

I Pay Tribute to John Bellairs, The Mackerel-Snapping Master of Moppet Macabre

at the University Bookman: Children fell in love with the tales of John Bellairs (1938–1991)...

February 03, 2018

“The Body & Society” Notes, Pt 4: Take My Breath Away

The metaphors by which the saints and spiritual writers have described celibate life have a...

February 01, 2018

Now Available: “Christ’s Body, Christ’s Wounds: Staying Catholic When You’ve Been Hurt in the Church”

I edited this anthology of memoir, practical guidance, poetry, family history, and spiritual reflection. Contributions...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

“The Body & Society” Notes, Part 3: A Threat to the Traditional Family

[Paul] was concerned to emphasize, rather [than fornication], the continuing validity of all social bonds....

January 24, 2018

“The Body & Society” Notes Pt 2: Against Celibate Privacy

The heart should be all of one piece. No hidden motives should lurk within it....

January 19, 2018

“The Body & Society” Notes Pt 1: Damned to Pixar Heaven

Okay, I thought I could write a coherent series of posts relating the concerns of...

January 12, 2018

Off-Key in the Canticle: Some scattered notes on “post-liberal” order

On Wednesday I went to a discussion at the Catholic Information Center here in DC,...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

“How the Eucharist Helps the Lonely and the Desperate”: I’m in the Catholic Herald

running my mouth: In 2015, a blog called Spiritual Friendship, which publishes theological and personal reflections...

December 13, 2017

Judgment on the Orient Express

in which I take in my little review which couldn't find a home. That's why...

December 13, 2017

Gay Catholic Whatnot–on Russian Catholic Radio!

This is so cool! You can listen to the interview in English (here, I think?)...

December 11, 2017

Counting Days

Some notes on Advent & addiction. I've said before that David Carr's Night of the...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

My Favorite Genre of America Magazine Articles

is the profile of somebody I didn't know about, or didn't know was Catholic, and...

November 16, 2017

“What it’s like going to church when you’re homeless”: My piece for America

interview-based, v. small number of people but they said some things you'll want to read:...

November 12, 2017

“Secrets of the South/Meet the Secret Society of Radical Black Women”

I'm just quoting one paragraph but there's so much to consider and be thankful for...

November 07, 2017

William Shakespeare, SJ: “Equivocation”

So I commemorated the Fifth of November by attending a reading of Equivocation, Jesuit priest...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Catholic Horror and the Two Theologies of “The Witch”

A couple notes of Halloweenery for you. First, I did a piece for a Scottish...

October 23, 2017

Blue Moon: My tribute to/critique of 1985 lesbian classic film “Desert Hearts”

is at Commonweal: Donna Deitch always intended Desert Hearts to be not only a lesbian...

October 12, 2017

A Girl in Love

I recently watched Writer of O, the 2004 documentary about Pauline Reage/Dominique Aury/Anne Desclos, the...

October 12, 2017

Barth Behind Bars

So I finally read me some of that Karl Barth I've heard so much about....