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December 21, 2015

Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow…. My Farewell Tribute to Patheos

Patheos, I have loved you. When Elizabeth Scalia first invited me to sit in her...

June 2015

June 05, 2015

Flannery’s Peacocks: “King of the Birds” Run Amok

"I intend to stand firm and let the peacocks multiply, for I am sure that,...

March 2015

March 28, 2015

Happy Birthday, St. Teresa of Avila: Patron of Catholic Writers and Headache Sufferers!

A Saint I Can Relate To! St. Teresa of Avila was born 500 years ago...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

So You Want to Be a Writer… You Should Attend the Catholic Writers Conference This Summer!

Secretly, you're a writer. You bury yourself in historical novels, and you think, "Someday I'd...

May 2014

May 03, 2014

Will the Vatican Establish a Secretariat for Communications? And What Would That Mean for Bloggers?

News this morning out of Rome: Giacomo Galeazzi, writing for Vatican Insider, reports that the...

May 02, 2014

BLOGGER SELFIE: Why I Write, What I Write, When I Write

Here I am--participating in the #mywritingprocess blog tour! Elizabeth Duffy got me into this. Well,...

May 08, 2013

THIS IS WATER: How to Think About Life

David Foster Wallace was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer and essayist. Time magazine...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

No Place in the Church for the Catholic Bloggers?

Did Pope Francis really say that there is no place in the Church for Catholic...

April 10, 2013

Analytics Is a Siren

I subscribe to Google Analytics. That means that I know everything about You, the Readers...

March 2013

March 12, 2013

A BIRD IS A POEM IS AN ALTAR: The Elegant “Pattern Poetry” of George Herbert

George Herbert (1593 – 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. He was...

January 2013

January 11, 2013

THE POETRY OF FAITH: Once Upon a Time, Belief Was Normative

Doesn't it sometimes seem that you were meant to live in a different age? That...

January 02, 2013

Jonathan Swift’s New Year’s Resolutions

DAY TWO: How are those New Year’s Resolutions coming? You remember Jonathan Swift from your...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Men Must Endure Their Going Hence: Remembering C.S. Lewis

Men Must Endure Their Going Hence. So warns Edgar in Shakespeare’s classic King Lear. And...

March 2012

March 12, 2012

He Is; Therefore, I Write

Hello, I’m Kathy. And I am a seeker, just like you. Like you, I am...

February 2012

February 06, 2012

I'm B-a-a-c-k! And I Have News….

What an incredibly busy week it’s been! First, a great honor: I was invited to...

May 2011

May 16, 2011

TOMORROW IS CHESTERTON DAY! Well, If You’re in Rome, That Is.

I spotted the announcement this morning: Over on Facebook, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, S.J.—one of the...

May 03, 2011

[CREEPY MUSIC] – WHERE HAVE ALL THE BLOGGERS GONE?!

It’s the stuff of science fiction, of a dark and dreary Dean Koontz novel: Vatican...

April 2011

April 21, 2011

UPDATES Regarding the Vatican’s Blogger Meeting

The Pontifical Council for Social Communications has issued updates regarding the Meeting with Bloggers. (“It’s...

April 19, 2011

BECAUSE YOU ASKED: The List of Catholic Bloggers Invited to Rome

A couple of friends have asked me who is invited to the Vatican to attend...

April 17, 2011

Inexperienced Blogger Gets to Play on First-String Team: I’M GOING TO ROME!

What a day it’s been! I woke this morning (well, yesterday morning) to find my name...

February 2011

February 27, 2011

READER’S CHOICE: What Do YOU Want to Read About? VOTE NOW!

OK, your chance to weigh in: Please take a minute to vote! What do YOU...

October 2010

October 28, 2010

BITTERSWEET NOSTALGIA

Time flies. I’m loathe to launch my new blog—to which I hope thoughtful readers might...