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July 2014

July 01, 2014

Every Parish Needs This, Stat

(via; h/t @TaigOHerron)

July 01, 2014

“Easy Fellowship”

Short meditation today, inspired by the rancor of our culture wars. One of the striking...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Struggling With Apocatastasis

Here's an excellent post from the excellent Leah Libresco, my Patheos co-blogger who is...

June 28, 2014

Against Platitudes

In my last post on education, I took exception to the platitudinous character of so...

June 27, 2014

Mmmm, Bacon

I think my dialogue with Sam is beginning to reach the point of diminishing returns,...

June 25, 2014

A Discourse Of The (Educational) Method

So, I owe Sam a response, after being sidetracked into other things. His latest...

June 24, 2014

Peter Thiel And The Cathedral

There's been a panel discussion between Peter Thiel, N.T. Wright and Ross Douthat, as I...

June 21, 2014

Where The Catholicism Meets The Road

Over the Paschal Triduum this year, if you recall, I read all four Gospels...

June 18, 2014

Why Is Montessori Different From All Other Education Methods?

My esteemed Patheos co-blogger and talented artist Sam Rocha may be one of the most...

June 17, 2014

Theology Of The Imperfect Body

(An old, but evergreen post from my old blog; reposting prompted in part by this excellent post...

June 16, 2014

Catholic Father’s Day Is A Fractal

I'm slowly starting to get used to the fact that Father's Day is a day...

June 13, 2014

God Is Not Big

At the mountain of God, Horeb, Elijah came to a cave, where he took shelter....

June 12, 2014

Morning Prayer

First draft, a work in progress, very silly... Hear, Israel, the Lord is our God,...

June 11, 2014

Take The Little Ones To Eucharistic Adoration

Frequent readers will know that it is my firm belief that waning belief in the...

June 10, 2014

A Good Hospital

Let's imagine the best Catholic hospital--the best possible Catholic hospital, the Platonic ideal of the...

June 09, 2014

Everything I Know About Prayer

I know almost nothing about prayer. But what I do know I don't see being...

June 06, 2014

Spanking Is Intrinsically Disordered

In Catholic moral theology, intrinsically disordered acts are acts that, by their very nature, are...

June 05, 2014

A Trinitarian Theology of Sacrificial Worship (And, Ergo, Morality)

Man, I really know how to do the click-baity headlines. Anyway, I'm continuing to riff...

June 04, 2014

Look At Your Sin

One of the most arresting scenes in Shakespeare's Hamlet is when Hamlet confronts his mother...

June 03, 2014

Book Review: Andy Crouch, “Playing God”

(Full disclosure: the author bought me a drink and gave me his book. I found...

June 02, 2014

Diocesan Ombuds(wo)men

The Church has a monarchical structure, quite explicitly. In our ecclesiology, the Pope is the...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Male Headship in the Catholic Tradition

Since we're on the topic of Catholic feminism, I want to take up this...

May 30, 2014

“Feminism” Is Not A Dirty Word For Catholics

There are some words that have become so loaded that it is very hard to...

May 29, 2014

Reflections On The Ascension

I love the Easter liturgical season. For the obvious reasons. But I also love the...

May 29, 2014

A Coda On “Morality As Worship”

A sequel to this. Think of St Maximilian Kolbe. In Auschwitz, he offered to take...

May 27, 2014

The Liturgy As The Union Of The Three Transcendentals

As y'all know, I care a lot about the liturgy and why we should care...

May 26, 2014

Morality As Worship

Why should Christians act morally? Because if they do they will go to Heaven...

May 21, 2014

The Movie of Paul’s Life

So here's a thing we should do. Or not, because it might turn out horrible....

May 21, 2014

England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty

There's a Sorkinism that goes "It seems to me that more and more we've come...

May 20, 2014

Is The Future Of Catholicism Protestantism? I Hope So

The #protfuture conversation continues. First Things editor R.R. Reno has a reflection on it, as...