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July 2014

July 08, 2014

Tax Collectors and Other Sinners: Family Life & the Place of Wayward Catholics in the Parish

Rebecca Hamilton has written a beautiful and moving testimony on the nature of family life,...

July 08, 2014

Taming the Feral Faithful: How to Lure Serious Catholics Back to Your Parish

"The good news," I found myself telling a new arrival recently, in giving her the...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Evangelization & Parish Time Management

At New Evangelizers today, I take a look at how the way we manage our...

June 20, 2014

Quick Links – Corrections on Guns & Tuam

Two links, unrelated, that deserve your attention: 1. The Associated Press issued a correction on...

June 04, 2014

Evil is Easy – updated twice

Fresh reports of horror out of Ireland, these far grimmer than what I had seen...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

How to Stay Sane in St. Blog’s

We've got a new round of Catholic internet drama going, and it hardly matters what...

May 29, 2014

Why Does the Ascension Matter?

At Mass Wednesday, Father E., who can't get his hair cut without every daily-Mass-goer weighing...

May 16, 2014

Satire? Yes or No?

UPDATE: I've gone and done it. Check the "Satire" category to see the results of my...

May 09, 2014

How Not to Do Religion

William Peace tells the tale that tops all the weirdo-magnet stories I've heard to date....

May 02, 2014

Pomp without Vanity: A True Story from a Parish Photo Directory

Fr. Longenecker argues in favor of pomp and ceremony here, and I have a story...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

Why is Obedience a Virtue?

Add "Obedience" to the long list of Christian topics I write about but personally stink...

April 14, 2014

The Church is No Place for Cowardice – Homily Link

Link for Rebecca Hamilton: a Palm Sunday homily against cowardice. At minute 5:38: The temptation...

April 09, 2014

On Dissidents, Freedom, and the Eich Case – The Essay You Need to Read.

The Federalist says, thoroughly, what I wish I could have done half so well: The Rise...

April 09, 2014

First Communion Gift Ideas?

Elizabeth Scalia's post on the value of Catholic kitsch reminded me I had a bleg:...

April 07, 2014

The Truth & Meaning of Sexuality – The Cultural Reform Begins In the Church

This morning I was considering a remark from my combox comparing those who uphold the...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Students Angry at Catholic School for Teaching Catholic Faith – UPDATED

If you're running late on saying your Chaplet of Divine Mercy today*, consider offering it...

March 27, 2014

How Can the Spiritually Flabby Be Helped?

So there are these people at your parish who fail to meet spec. Too much...

March 23, 2014

On Evangelization: Even People Like You are Missionary Material

From my Daily Roman Missal this morning, some thoughts on prayer that were just...

March 18, 2014

Does Your Work as a Catechist Matter?

Elizabeth Duffy poses the question, "When Will My Work as a Catechist Bear Fruit?" Take...

March 15, 2014

Ignorant Kids, Slack Parents, Tepid Culture . . . What’s a Catechist to Do?

We Patheos Catholics received a letter recently from a distressed catechist: The kids don't...

March 11, 2014

Pope Francis on Same Sex Unions and the Case for Regulatory Reform

Rebbecca Hamiliton reports here on the recent CNA interview with Pope Francis, in which he...

March 06, 2014

On Forgiveness: You Hate Me Because I’m Gay

A longtime colleague of mine, who is gay, thinks I hate him. We've always gotten...

March 04, 2014

Charity, Insularity, and the Extraordinary Form

Monday morning I swallowed hard when a post popped up on a small internet discussion...