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April 2015

April 28, 2015

LORD, MAKE ME A BANYAN TREE

We lost a mighty tree in our front yard this winter. It was an ash,...

April 07, 2015

Meditations in God’s Garden

Spring arrived slowly this year. In Michigan, where I make my home, the earth is...

August 2014

August 07, 2014

IMAGE AND REALITY: God’s Vision for Womanhood

What makes a woman beautiful? If the magazines in the checkout aisle are to be...

August 03, 2014

Should the Catholic Church Sell St. Peter’s Basilica to Help the Poor?

"I looked up at the great basilica, and I had two reactions: First, I appreciated...

March 2014

March 13, 2014

The Trapdoor on Christ’s Right Shoulder

I have just soaked up all the beauty and the mystery of "Arms Wide Open", a...

June 2013

June 15, 2013

Peek-a-Boo! God and The Bornean Rainbow Toad

Wrap your mind around this (can you see it?). It's a Bornean Rainbow Toad. God,...

November 2012

November 02, 2012

Man Sues Wife Over Ugly Baby—And Wins!

Just so you know: I am tucking this into my big fat manila file of...

October 2012

October 12, 2012

Reimagining Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam

"Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one...

September 2012

September 22, 2012

BIGGER BREASTS AND SMALLER NOSES: The Correction Continuum. Is Plastic Surgery Immoral?

Is plastic surgery immoral? Chances are, you think it’s a bad idea to have breast...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

CAN AN AGNOSTIC BE DIVINELY INSPIRED? “Babette’s Feast” Is a Eucharistic Allegory From an Unlikely Author

You probably know at least a little about Danish baroness and plantation owner Karen von...

July 05, 2012

Dress for [Liturgical] Success

To visit the White House, you wear a dark blue suit, white shirt, and...

June 2012

June 25, 2012

LIFE: Flashing, Pulsating, Captivating Life

You may not know his name, but I’ll bet his scientific visualizations—explosions of color and...

May 2012

May 11, 2012

Humble Pie and the Great Wall of Pretending

“This store,” asked the diminutive Filipino woman as I reached for the door at my...

March 2012

March 20, 2012

The Wound of Beauty: It’s Never Quite Enough

"It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got...

December 2011

December 28, 2011

Detroit's Historic Assumption Grotto, Then and Now

On my To-Do List for a long time now: An article on Detroit’s historic Assumption...

December 08, 2011

What Mary Wore: Belts and Veils from Mary’s Closet

In honor of the Marian feast this week, I thought I’d take a peek inside...

November 2011

November 30, 2011

Oh, Please– Tell Me It Ain't "Bo"

Oh, no. I was chuckling about the article that's gone viral these past few days,...

October 2011

October 06, 2011

Truth and Beauty: Father Barron’s "Catholicism"

Our cable carrier picks up WGN, the network from Chicago which aired several videos from Fr....

August 2011

August 19, 2011

This Beetle: Maybe I'll Name Him Benjamin

So there I was, bustling about the house getting ready for work, and this Big...

March 2011

March 13, 2011

“Spiritual Mediocrity, Doctrinal Confusion, Uncertain Commitments, and a Negotiated Truce With Sin: The Bitter Fruits of False catholicisms”

It was more than ten years ago that I fell in love with Greenville, South...

February 2011

February 03, 2011

HATRED IN THE CREATIVE ARTS: “Evil-doers” Collection Opens in Toronto

And I tell you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build...

December 2010

December 11, 2010

GILDING THE LILY: Milan's Duomo Has New Lights!

What a wonder it is! So grand, so solemn, so vast! And yet so delicate,...