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June 2026

June 09, 2026

10 Catholic Finds at the Pride Festival

So I found myself wandering a Pride-themed festival this month, a gathering not exactly known...

January 2024

January 31, 2024

Fun Stuff: The Immediate Book Meme

It is with great joy that I observe Darwin Catholic and Wine-Dark Sea have brought...

February 2023

February 03, 2023

The Incoherent World of Wednesday

For a while during my misspent youth, I was a regular viewer of The Addams...

November 2022

November 14, 2022

Catch Me Tonight on The Journey Home!

Update: Here’s the episode link! Just learned this morning that my episode of The Journey Home airs...

September 2022

September 09, 2022

Her Majesty’s Final Inkblot Test

Something that astonished me, but shouldn't have, is just how divided Twitter has been over...

February 2022

February 13, 2022

Book Review: Living Momento Mori by Emily DeArdo

Now up at the substack, *finally*, is my review of my friend Emily DeArdo's how-to...

February 09, 2022

Where Well-Behaved Jen Fitz is Writing This Year

If you want to understand the thing I'm about to announce, consider reading Simcha Fisher's...

December 2021

December 08, 2021

Evangelizing in Ancient Cathedrals

Amy Welborn has a good series of reflections on the proposed renovations to Notre Dame...

November 2021

November 20, 2021

Being Welcoming vs. Selling “Welcoming”

Hard-hitting post by Amy Welborn: "I no longer live, but…" on the failure of come-back-to-Mass...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

Oh Geez. Integralism? Seriously?

This morning Rod Dreher delivered on his daily promise to keep me entertained by shedding...

July 2021

July 23, 2021

7QT: Life as a Walking Knock-knock Joke

Since it's that time of week, seven things to make you glad you don't live...

June 2021

June 03, 2021

When Mercy Shows Up at Your Parish

I want to speak briefly to the problem of the horrible people you go to...

May 2021

May 24, 2021

Fun Stuff Authors Like

Just saw OSV's book video for The How-to Book of Evangelization for the first time today...

January 2021

January 16, 2021

One Weird Trick for Loving Your Extended Enemy-Family

Two different conversations on-topic with this coming weekend's conference* converged on this morning's readings. The...

January 08, 2021

Allowing Jesus to Heal Your Rhetorical Disease

This morning after half a cup of coffee, what I wanted to write was a...

January 06, 2021

Is Your Debate Style Passionate or . . . Poisoned?

Later this month, I am co-hosting a small, pro-bono conference-retreat for Catholic communicators -- professional...

December 2020

December 15, 2020

When you’re ready to change, Jesus is ready to heal you — Catholic pundit edition

This morning's Gospel is the perfect text for conference-retreat I'm co-hosting in a month-and-change from...

December 02, 2020

Fr. Rutler and Other Sinners

I don't always agree, even remotely, with what Rod Dreher has to say, but today...

October 2020

October 27, 2020

Mind the Triumphalism re: #ACB

Suggested Bible verse for conservatives who are raucously celebrating the confirmation Amy Coney Barrett: Proverbs...

August 2020

August 12, 2020

How to Treat Gentiles and Tax Collectors

Today's Gospel is the instruction on what to do with erring members of the Church:...

August 08, 2020

Breathtaking Beauty in Church Controversies over Kinda-Boring Stuff

This article over at Crux, "Vatican says baptisms done with plural pronouns are invalid" has...

July 2020

July 01, 2020

Speaking of Clerical Corruption . . .

Church Militant is not my usual haunt, but they deserve credit for publicizing the case...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

My New Book has Launched! Woohoo! (+Free intro course, tell your friends!)

The kindle edition was available ahead of the official launch date, but I'm pleased to...

June 28, 2020

Spark Truth: The Life-Changing Magic of Reasoning Up

In prepping my first debate class for teenagers, I instituted a revolutionary rule: No participant...

June 23, 2020

The Innocence of St. Junípero Serra

As statues are being torn down or vandalized around the country, the Catholic Church is...

January 2020

January 11, 2020

Request for Contributions: Effective Communication on Parish Access for You, a Person with a Disability

Hey everyone, I am looking for help, quickly. My awesome editor of the new book...

October 2019

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...

September 2019

September 05, 2019

Best Practices in Evangelization = Unintended Lesson in Homelessness

Here's an article on a fantastic initiative in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, in which dedicated...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

Labor Day Reading (Free Book): Learn to Tell the Story of You and Jesus

Your story is important. How important? Way back when the Internet first got going, what...

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...