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October 2019

October 30, 2019

Is There Any Hope for People Like You and Joe Biden?

Here's a curious thing about judging-not: In my heavily-Catholic corner of social media, there were...

October 24, 2019

Trends in Parish Administration: Are Deacons the New Black?

Deacon Greg Kandra* links over at The Deacon's Bench on the growing use of deacons as parish...

October 21, 2019

Idol-Tossing, Yay or Nay? It’s Not that Complicated, Sheesh.

Let's see: There might or might not have been a pagan idol given a place...

October 14, 2019

What if a Saint Was Gay?

As I write, the usual suspects are circulating conjecture about a newly-canonized saint: Maybe this person...

May 2019

May 15, 2019

Need Your Help: Stories of Equal Access

I need your help with getting a door unlocked. I'm a parishioner (and at last...

February 2019

February 17, 2019

Dear Gay Catholic Priests,

I've been reading about your plight in the New York Times. So let's go ahead and clear...

September 2018

September 13, 2018

Why Yes, I’m Still Catholic

Some things that happened this summer: (1) We discovered our bishops cannot be trusted with...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

The Implications of Not Using the Death Penalty

In all the excitement of every bishop in the world's credibility imploding in one fell...

August 02, 2018

Fisking Cardinal DiNardo: USCCB Unclear on the Concept

Happy August! For our entertainment, the USCCB has issued a fresh statement on the terrible,...

August 02, 2018

Solved: The Case of the Disappearing Young Adults

I have often wondered why something so simple as getting young adults engaged in parish...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

Sexual Harassment at Catholic University?

Catholic University has taken back the honorary degree it gave McCarrick. Let's use some critical...

July 28, 2018

McCarrick and the Banality of Dissent

As long as we're asking people to come clean about what they knew and didn't:...

July 25, 2018

McCarrick, Gayness, and Humanae Vitae

I have seen surprisingly little homophobia in the McCarrick scandals, but then again I'm selective...

July 18, 2018

McCarrick’s Dam of Silence Starts to Crack

The New York Times has come forward with the first round of investigative reporting on...

July 02, 2018

How Lay Catholics Can Help Stomp Out Clerical Corruption

Rod Dreher has a McCarrick follow-up post sharing e-mails from priests who have contacted him...

June 2018

June 24, 2018

A New Basilica, and Bishop Who Has Things He Needs to Say

This morning I had the pleasure of being present when Bishop Robert Gugliemone announced the...

June 23, 2018

Promiscuous vs. Predatory: How to Tell the Difference

In response to the McCarrick case, Fr. Longenecker, with whom I generally agree, writes something...

June 22, 2018

Soldiers for Christ Hiding Under the Bed

Bishops and bloggers live at opposite ends of the talking jobs. Bishops are charged with...

June 01, 2018

Can a Protestant Church Get “Too Catholic”?

South Carolina is basically one big small town, so the odds are high that I...

December 2017

December 21, 2017

Should Cardinal Law Have Received the Funeral That He Did?

A friend posed the question many are asking: Why on earth did Cardinal Law receive...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Doubt, Demoralization, and the Company You Keep

More and more of my Catholic friends are struggling to stay Catholic. They are demoralized...

November 16, 2017

Evangelization and Discipleship for the Boys & Girls Who Live At Your House

Up that Register: 11 Ways to Prepare Your Boy to be a Great Priest.* I've never...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

Four Ways to Avoid Becoming a Bitter Catholic

Up at the Register this morning, I'm talking about ways to not become a person you hate...

September 24, 2017

When Your Class Is So Bad You Have to Apologize to Other Teachers

Over at the Conspiracy, I tell the story of my most spectacular teaching failure ever....

February 2017

February 02, 2017

Is Your Catholic School Any Good?

The other week a friend was sharing in a private discussion group about how her...

July 2016

July 20, 2016

Christian Calamities: A Taste of the South to Help You Choke on America

There's been pearl-clutching in odd quarters ever since Pastor Mark Burns, a South Carolinian, delivered...

May 2016

May 07, 2016

Lectio Mischief: Apollos

From this morning's readings: A Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, an eloquent speaker, arrived...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

Veil-Induced Fascination With Your Neighbor’s Interior Life

Let me tell you about something lovely that happened to me in real life: I...

February 2016

February 11, 2016

Suspected Abuse? Call the Police. You and Your Bishop Both.

There are a couple stories circulating to the effect that new Catholic bishops are being...

February 04, 2016

Why Mention 5,000 Men, and Slight Those Women and Children?

As I mentioned the other week, Sr. Simone Campbell has shown herself to be a...