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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...

September 2020

September 27, 2020

A Snapshot of Systemic Racism in Action

A series of three tweets caught my attention this morning, from Mandie Landry (@votelandry), a...

September 08, 2020

Stepping Off the Political Fear-Mobile

Full disclosure before we begin . . . I'll be getting in line at my...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Not Everything is Political

Today I was alarmed to find myself needing write this. So let me explain something, again,...

August 13, 2020

Cultivating the Virtue of Perseverance in Prayer

Fr. Matthew Schneider did a great job covering the recent case of a priest who...

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:...

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 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...

June 05, 2020

Quit Making Racism the Young Man’s Burden

Today I saw an otherwise lovely, if a tad anodyne, church statement on recent events,...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

On Police Brutality, Civil Unrest, and Resisting Simplified Narratives

Last night during the protesting and looting in Minneapolis, I viewed a few of the...

May 19, 2020

R.R. Reno Does the Right Thing

Quick update on my post from the other day: R.R. Reno issued a formal apology...

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...

May 11, 2019

To My Child’s Pro-Choice Friend

Dear Young Person I've Watched Grow Up, I want to tell you today about a...

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

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 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:...

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 19, 2018

Confession – Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe

In light of Australia's new law requiring priests to break the seal of confession, a...

June 13, 2018

How Ideological Purity Destroys Real Purity

The latest in the Ideological Purity Wars is the public shaming and repentance of Twitter...

March 2018

March 01, 2018

What’s the Difference Between Abortion and Capital Murder?

A seventeen year old girl in Texas gave birth at home alone, stabbed the baby,...

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...

October 2017

October 05, 2017

Death and Dread – Links & Comments

My parents live in Las Vegas, I have good friends from Las Vegas, and it...

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...

August 2017

August 28, 2017

Generation Bodies-R-Us

This weekend walking the halls of the public high school hosting my daughter's volleyball tournament,...

August 15, 2017

Speaking of White Supremacists . . .

. . . it is possible for people to change. Joseph Pearce's autobiography Race...

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...