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September 2023

September 22, 2023

They Flew: I review Carlos Eire’s new book on levitating saints, frauds, and witches

for The Bulwark: ...On the first page of Yale history professor Carlos Eire’s puckish new...

October 2022

October 17, 2022

Sleeping on Buses with the Stars: Short movie notes

A cornucopia! Benediction: Terence Davies's experimental, time-shifting Siegfried Sassoon biopic. The elderly Sassoon's conversion to...

June 2020

June 22, 2020

“Joan of Arc” Is One Weird Hagiography… But Not Quite Weird Enough

I'm at America magazine: Bruno Dumont’s 2017 film “Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc”...

July 2019

July 15, 2019

Do We Really Need A New Translation of the “Confessions”? Surprisingly, Yes!

I review Thomas Williams's flamboyantly helpful new edition, for the University Bookman: Thomas Williams spends...

June 2019

June 13, 2019

Ecstasy in Celibacy Postscript: A Prayer from Gertrude the Great

I'm reading Caroline Walker Bynum's excellent Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

Being Shut Out of the Perfect Closed Sphere of Faith: I’m at The Catholic Woman

being a Catholic woman: Hey-- Back in 1998 or 1999, when I was a very...

February 2019

February 15, 2019

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Some notes on Mary of Egypt

If you are up-front about your experience of either addiction, or let's say marginalized sexuality,...

December 2018

December 08, 2018

Is the Best Catholic Horror Movie of 2018… “The Song of Bernadette”?

I ask the hard questions, at America: At first glance, “The Song of Bernadette” seems...

October 2018

October 21, 2018

God in Silence, God in Screams: Short movie reviews (with a theme!)

Prince of Egypt: A haunting cartoon retelling of the Exodus which pulls few punches. The...

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...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

A Great New Art Film About the Childhood of Joan of Arc

which I review for the American Interest: Many of our most formative experiences—the extremes of...

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...

March 2017

March 07, 2017

“Their Wives and Their Wealth Have Made Them So Mute”: Reading Waugh’s biographies of Campion & Knox

Recently finished Two Lives, which encloses in one volume Evelyn Waugh's biographies of St Edmund...

February 2017

February 04, 2017

“St. Agnes and the Women’s March”: The Dominicana Journal

on living as a sign of welcome without compromise: ...Surprisingly, a few marchers spontaneously started...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

“To Paradise, By Way of Kensal Green”: I review “The English Way”

for the University Bookman. Papist polemics, monks with painted eyelids, "apostolic viragoes" and more! You...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

The Relics of Richard III: An older but provocative post on medieval bones and modern worship

by Eleanor Parker aka A Clerk of Oxford. The rest of this post is quite...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

A Short Review of “The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement”

Going into this book I knew basically nothing about the beguines--not even how you pronounce...

May 26, 2016

Christina the Astonishing: From Laura Swan, “The Wisdom of the Beguines”

(of which more soon) Once, while visiting the Benedictine nuns at St. Catherine's near Sint-Truiden...

April 2016

April 01, 2016

When the Last Days Come, We Shall See Visions: A Holy Week Roundup That’s Really an Excuse…

...to talk about the Mountain Goats. Once more I did my annual Mountain Goats Holy...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

“The Saints You Missed in Sunday School”: Check Out This Great Project

from the Orthodox Church in America. My only caveat is that although the site is...

February 25, 2016

The Three False Gods of Marriage, Freedom, And Morality

So I spent a long weekend in Holland, MI, the heart of Dutch Reform USA...

December 2015

December 20, 2015

“You Are Bigger Than Even Your Biggest Mistake”: My friend Steven Christoforou

on St Dionysios of Zakynthos and the freedom of forgiveness: as you can tell, Steve...

December 06, 2015

Medieval English Songs for St Nicholas

St Nicholas was a very popular saint in the Middle Ages, and with all the...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

Belated Post for St Elizabeth of Hungary, My Patroness

Amy Welborn quotes Benedict XVI: Dear brothers and sisters, in St Elizabeth we see how...

October 2015

October 08, 2015

“Reflections on the Feast of St Francis”: Ron Belgau

on a great saint (and a great hagiography): G. K. Chesterton’s biography of St. Francis...

October 08, 2015

“St Maria Goretti in Sing Sing”: A Real Thing That Happened

w/very moving photo: The #PilgrimageofMercy, the tour of the major relics of St. Maria Goretti...

September 2015

September 18, 2015

“An Unlikely Nun Every Snake Person Should Meet”: Joel J. Miller

on Mother Maria Skobtsova, and I STILL don't have a tag for Orthodox Christianity, sorry!!...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

“The Wisdom of the Beguines”: Commonweal Book Review on Medieval Laywomen Mystics

with tons of fascinating stuff: In the twelfth century, single women began moving in large...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

“A Most Misunderstood Saint”: Fr James Martin, SJ on St Aloysius Gonzaga

book excerpt: June 21 is the Feast Day of one of the most misunderstood saints...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

Honoring Friendship on St Aelred’s Feast Day

...which I totally missed. But there's always next year (if the Messiah tarries): I don’t...