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October 2021

October 11, 2021

God’s Answers Deserve Better Questions: What I said at Revoice 21

Revoice is a conference for lgbt/same-sex attracted Christians who accept what is sometimes called a...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Normal Books for Mammals: 2020 Year’s Best

Nonfiction top 10: 10. Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre, eds. Sticking It to the Man:...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

Spooky Tales for Catholics: An America Magazine Roundup

strongly endorse Dracula although I wonder if the note about his likely former religious affiliation...

August 2020

August 13, 2020

A Holiday Horror Flick Where the Monster Is Sunday Business Hours

(...sort of.) I'm at First Things: Last year, Oscar-winner Parasite and box-office smash Knives Out...

February 2020

February 27, 2020

The Belles of St. Dismas: Short movie reviews

in the order in which I saw them. Dead of Night: A 1945 British horror...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

In Sheep’s Clothing: Three quick movie reviews

Corpus Christi: In this Polish film, a series of coincidences allows a juvenile delinquent (Bartosz...

November 2019

November 19, 2019

Theology of Motherhood… By Actual Mothers?!

That's what Carrie Frederick Frost hopes to provoke with her slender new book, Maternal Body:...

October 2019

October 10, 2019

To Make Catholic Writers, Make Catholic Readers

Two very small thoughts from the Catholic Imagination Conference. The first one is that today...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

Eight “Catholic Horror Films” from a Global Church

I'm at America magazine, venturing beyond America: Everybody knows the Catholic Church dominates the world...

May 2019

May 12, 2019

“A Gimlet Eye Beneath a Chapel Veil”: My tribute to Antonia White

at the University Bookman: "We work to-day to turn out, not accomplished young women, nor...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

Medieval Eucharistic Piety, And My Own: They Recognized Him in the Breaking of the Bread

Alongside the Crucifixion, the Eucharist--and specifically the Real Presence, the literal transformation of the bread...

February 2019

February 22, 2019

“The Value of Public Penance in the Age of Clerical Abuse, Mass Incarceration, And #MeToo”: I’m in America

the magazine, though also the country: Bishop Knestout is not the only U.S. prelate to...

February 10, 2019

Down the Wrong Road, Both Ways

Toward the end of 2017, I think, I started doing something which I eventually called...

January 2019

January 11, 2019

SECRET NUN MUSIC! alarm emoji nun emoji

The Catholic Herald with breaking news from the Middle Ages: The standard textbooks on the...

January 07, 2019

“Confession in America”: I review a history of an individualist country

and her Church: In the 2013 Joseph Gordon-Levitt romantic comedy Don Jon, the porn-obsessed title...

November 2018

November 20, 2018

“Hour of the Wolf”: Further Reflections on Staying Catholic in a Time of Crisis

Earlier this year I edited an anthology, Christ’s Body, Christ’s Wounds: Staying Catholic When You’ve...

October 2018

October 20, 2018

Three Fictional Retellings of Violent Christian History

Two of them are good. One of them is not good! ...Plus bonus Pope Emeritus...

October 10, 2018

Video of “Salt & Light” Panel on Abuse Crisis: Elizabeth Bruenig, Jonathan Lewis, Joshua McElwee, & Me

Three actual young people who know things because they're (excellent) reporters or they actually work...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Objections and Additions to “A Closeted Subculture”

I'm still thinking about the point I tried to make on Monday, about how talk...

August 20, 2018

A Closeted Subculture

Many discussions of the sexual-abuse crisis within the Catholic Church have used the phrase, "a...

August 13, 2018

Public Penance and the Abuse Crisis

A week from today, Monday, August 20, St Matthew's Cathedral here in DC is dedicating...

June 2018

June 12, 2018

There’s a Place for Us: Revoice and Gay Christian Futures

I'm speaking at Revoice, a conference in St Louis next month aimed at "supporting, encouraging...

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...

April 2018

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...

February 2018

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 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 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...

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...