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May 2018

May 15, 2018

Notes on Heresy

I haven’t any major gripes with the Roman Catholic Church. On the whole, I feel...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

A Conversation with Gene Luen Yang: Part 1

Gene Luen Yang is the MacArthur genius grant–winning author of graphic novels including Boxers and...

January 2018

January 18, 2018

On Monks, Conversion, and Radio Astronomy, Part 2

On my second day at the abbey, I bounced around, trying to listen, to feel,...

January 17, 2018

Of Monks, Conversion, and Radio Astronomy, Part 1

In the middle of life, I fell in love. For my forty-ninth birthday, my wife...

November 2017

November 15, 2017

A Feminine Corollary to Machismo? Part 1

After the keynote speaker at the conference, everyone in my immediate vicinity wanted a drink,...

August 2017

August 17, 2017

Life, Death, Bread, Host

Guest Post by Laura Bramon This post originally appeared at "Good Letters" on August 18,...

August 01, 2017

Our Lady of Czestochowa

Before a metastasizing cancer had fully whittled away her quality of life, my mother left...

June 2017

June 06, 2017

Movements of the Lord

As I was saying my rosary this morning on my walk, it occurred to me...

May 2017

May 19, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Spirit of Promise”

Memories can make good material for poetry. In “The Spirit of Promise,” Daniel Donaghy is...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

Calling the Lapsed

By E.D. The parish party was a bust. As a member of the Parish Council,...

September 2016

September 08, 2016

The New Critics and the Barbarians

The poet and writer Dana Gioia penned an essay for the December 2013 issue of...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

Knee Walk

By Grace Talusan We stumbled onto the bus in Lisbon, sleepy after the overnight flight...

June 13, 2016

Eden at the Indy 500

I managed to live in Indiana for forty years before visiting the Indianapolis 500. A...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

A Strange Season for Inter-Christian Families

American culture, at this late and plural hour, seems to have pretty well normalized the...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Wedding: Part 2

Read Part 1 here. By Danielle Leshaw Judaism tells us how to leave. Leaving the...

March 30, 2016

A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Wedding: Part 1

By Danielle Leshaw Father Bill offered a set of instructions. “Walk beside me, never on...

March 10, 2016

Praying the Rosary

By Laura Bramon My first rosary is invisible: a string of children’s voices ricocheting off...

January 2016

January 14, 2016

Learning Detachment in the Attic

By Elizabeth Duffy When my cousin became a Dominican sister, she gave away all of...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Here at Last is Love: The Poems of Dunstan Thompson

I get tingly with anticipation when I'm about to meet a new poet. I don't...

October 13, 2015

Lucia Berlin: A Master of Catholic Fiction, Part 2

By Jenny Shank Continued from yesterday. Catholic imagery appears throughout Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for...

October 12, 2015

Lucia Berlin: A Master of Catholic Fiction, Part 1

By Jenny Shank In September, Lucia Berlin’s posthumous collection of selected short stories A Manual for...

September 2015

September 23, 2015

The Holy Wafer on the Floor

Sometimes I take the Host in the mouth, other times I take it in the...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Poets and Pope Embrace our Planet

Poets have no problem seeing the world evolving within God's care. Okay, that's too general...

May 2015

May 14, 2015

Contemplative Questions: An Interview on Spirituality and Prayer with Fr. Raymond Shore, OP, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Jan Vallone: You say that joy is the knowledge of the possession...

May 13, 2015

Contemplative Questions: An Interview on Spirituality and Prayer with Fr. Raymond Shore, OP, Part 1

Spurred by both confusion and curiosity, I recently took a graduate course on contemporary spirituality...

April 2015

April 17, 2015

Jesus Through Poets’ Eyes

In my Catholic faith, Easter lasts for seven weeks, until Pentecost; so I'm not too...

March 2015

March 12, 2015

Signs, Parables, and The Lord of the Rings

I’m reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time. I inwardly cringed...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

The Sex Offender and the Cross

Guest post by Paul Luikart One day the girl I loved called me up—out of...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

St. Francis and the Bloody-Nosed Friar

Staying with friends in Silver Lake, Los Angeles for the holidays, I’ve taken to walking...

November 2014

November 26, 2014

Death and the Absurdity of Heaven

I remember, as an undergraduate, reading Spinoza for the first time. I came across the...