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February 2024

February 13, 2024

Idea for a Valentine’s Ash Wednesday

Quick thought about this year's St. Valentine's Ash Wednesday: Why not consecrate this Lent to...

January 2024

January 24, 2024

Can I Celebrate Valentine’s Day on Ash Wednesday?

Question that's been generating some unnecessary panic: Is it okay for a Catholic to celebrate...

December 2023

December 23, 2023

Catholic Detachment and the Science of Addiction

As I'm thinking through the Magnify 90 spiritual disciplines, what stands out is how tightly...

December 20, 2023

Why I’m Doing Magnify 90 this January

The reason I'm doing Magnify 90 this January is because my sister called me up...

February 2023

February 20, 2023

How Strict is the Fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday?

I have a friend who will be sitting the bar exam on Ash Wednesday. She's...

May 2022

May 15, 2022

Bishop Fabre-Jeune Ordination Links

Two links for highlights on Bishop Fabre-Jeune's ordination this past Friday the 13th: Nate Tinner-Williams...

March 2022

March 02, 2022

Lenten Obedience

As I'm writing this it's halfway through Ash Wednesday, definitely not too early for your...

December 2021

December 25, 2021

Merry Christmas!

Artwork today is the Nativity by Robert Campin. I didn't notice until I pasted it...

December 08, 2021

Evangelizing in Ancient Cathedrals

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

September 2021

September 19, 2021

Thinking About Images of Mary

In my goofing off today: "The First Instagram Filter" from Jeff Miller at The Curt...

September 14, 2021

What You’re Doing When You Vaccine-Shame Priests, and What to do Instead

At Catholic Vote this morning: "Bishop Orders Unvaccinated Priests Not to Minister to the Sick." ...

August 2020

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...

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...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Into Moderate Silence

Here in a few hours begins our customary three days of unplugged living. Which looks...

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 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...

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...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Easter, Better Late than Never

I would like to tell you something interesting that happened for my Easter present. It...

February 2016

February 10, 2016

What Place for Bare Minimum Catholicism?

What is it a Catholic really must do? You don't have to go to Mass...

February 09, 2016

Is Catholic Lent Too Easy? + Lent-o-Rama – UPDATED

UPDATED: Ted Seeber saves Lent by reminding me that no Lent-o-Rama is complete without This Time...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

The Beautiful Magazine for Sane Women – It’s Out!!!

I am so stinking proud of Elizabeth Scalia for launching Aleteia's new magazine For Her....

December 2015

December 06, 2015

Catholic Life Hacks: St. Nicholas Day S’Mores

You know you're raising them right when two different children independently invent these within an...

November 2015

November 01, 2015

The Rosary and a Rule of Life When You Haven’t Got Time

Happy All Saints Day! I'll be staying home with a cold, thank you. Which...

October 2015

October 13, 2015

3 Things to Do with Your Brain While Praying the Rosary

I recently got a question about praying the Rosary that went something like this: If...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Catholic Life Hacks: Michaelmas Chocolate Vigil-Vigil

The feast of the Archangels, aka Michaelmas (poor Raphael and Gabriel, always overlooked -- bet...

September 21, 2015

Catholic Life Hacks: Torn Window Screen

Imagine, just hypothetically, that you had a torn window screen. Maybe one that looked like...

September 14, 2015

Time Management and the Kinds of Time

I've fallen off the internet lately, and that's because I've been sleeping. More on that...

August 2015

August 18, 2015

Call for Writers: Catholic Mom’s Annual Gospel Reflection Collection

A reader reminded me I wrote something half-decent that ran this past week at CatholicMom.com....

July 2015

July 09, 2015

Why God-Centered Liturgy Matters So Much

It is, of course, a sin against the virtue of justice to spend your Mass...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

Six Months ‘Till Christmas: Feast of John the Baptist

I had this long rocky relationship with the Liturgy of the Hours, which finally came...