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February 2015

February 20, 2015

“Inside the Seminary”: Disturbing report

in Commonweal: ...From 2008 through 2010, I was a seminarian in St. Paul, Minneapolis, an...

February 04, 2015

“Singing Gospel, Growing Up Gay”: I review “Choir Boy”

at Studio Theater: “Choir Boy” is about the struggles of a gay teen coming of...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Queen of Hearts: I review “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea”

for Commonweal: The most beautiful portrayal of Marian devotion I’ve seen in literature came unexpectedly...

January 14, 2015

“An Open Conversation on Mixed-Orientation Marriage”

over at Theology in the Raw. Up-front about the suffering they've experienced; also challenging to...

January 03, 2015

Fra Angelico and the Sex-Hating Church

A really rambling post. Now that my book is out I've been doing a lot...

November 2014

November 17, 2014

“In Defense of Flagellation”: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

is right: ...During the podcast, the guests made several in-passing negative references to the monastic...

November 11, 2014

I’m Interviewed About My Book at A Queer Calling

enjoy! AQC: Now that your book is out on shelves, what book or books do...

November 07, 2014

“The Kiss of Peace: Liturgy to Free Us from Our Isolation”: I’m at Level Ground

with a post which is perhaps not fully baked, but which I hope will be...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

“Gay and Catholic” Book Extra: Bridal Mysticism for the Rest of Us

One of the biggest gaps in the book is its relative silence about prayer. There's...

October 13, 2014

From “Infinite Jest”

Arm out like a hack's arm, Gately blasts through B.U. country. As in backpack and...

October 08, 2014

“Why I Want to Live Long and Burden My Children”: Cheryl Magness

writes: Last week The Atlantic published the article “Why I Hope to Die by 75” by Ezekiel...

September 2014

September 20, 2014

“Gay and Catholic” Book Extras: A Tiny Post About Marriage and Priesthood

These are topics I left out of the book partly because I wanted to focus...

September 15, 2014

For Want of a Nail: I Watch “Boogie Nights”

Over the counter with a shotgun-- Pretty soon, everybody's got one. I'm in a fever...

September 06, 2014

Art as a Vocation: Gay and Catholic Book Extra!

What do we want? Eve's book! When do we want it? ...Soon! (Preorder now; it...

August 2014

August 21, 2014

The Anima Christi: A Deleted Chapter from My Great Big Gay Catholic Book

I had to cut a lot from the book, and this chapter was eccentric and...

August 08, 2014

Time Is Like a Dream/And Now–For a Time–You Are Mine: A Few More Thoughts on “Boyhood”

So when I wrote my review of Boyhood I knew it had gotten good press,...

July 2014

July 20, 2014

From “Graham Greene on Film”

Granted that From the Manger to the Cross is well made, was it worth making?...

July 19, 2014

Supporting Friends & Family Who Have Cancer: Jim Henley

A lot of these "what not to say/do" lists strike me as... less "actual advice...

July 08, 2014

Musical Rosary #14–Assumption

The two things I focus on with this mystery are the union of body and...

July 02, 2014

“California Female Inmates Sterilized Illegally”

through at least 2010: ..."The audit shows systemic failures by the federal receiver in the...

May 2014

May 14, 2014

“Five Details They Cut from My Season of ‘The Biggest Loser'”: Cracked

well worth reading even if you have no especial interest in weight loss or shows...

April 2014

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 01, 2014

“The Uncomfortable”: Deliberately Inconvenient Everyday Objects

These are glorious; via Matt Jones among others.

March 2014

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...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

“Rich Dad, Poor Dad”: I review new film about fatherhood

for AmSpec: Hirokazu Koreeda's new film, Like Father, Like Son, pretends that it will be...

February 18, 2014

“Flying Camels, Butterflies, And Twizzles”: I report from US Nationals

for AmSpec. (Which Nationals? you ask. Men's figure skating obviously. There is only one sport.)...

February 12, 2014

The Prison of My Person, The Shackles of My Skin

Wesley Hill quotes some powerful words from CS Lewis on masturbation and lustful fantasy: For...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

From “The Orthodox Way”

Asceticism is not self-enslavement but the way to freedom. Man is a tangled mesh of...

January 15, 2014

Help an Amazing Catholic Artist, Get Some Amazing Catholic Art

Daniel Mitsui should be familiar to longtime readers. Why not help a family in need...

January 15, 2014

Sickness Is a Land of Contrasts…

No, this post from Rod Dreher has a great Flannery O'Connor quote and terrific reader...