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February 2021

February 02, 2021

“The Pillar,” New, Interesting Catholic News Source

The Pillar on Joe Biden, Science, and Two Catholic Issues The new Catholic online source...

June 2020

June 01, 2020

Protesters and Rioters: In Minneapolis There’s a Big Difference.

An on-the-spot reporter for Twin Cities WCCO TV thinks the country will look at Minneapolis...

May 2020

May 30, 2020

Racism and Sympathies and Minneapolis Riots

Do you sympathize with owners of looted stores? I do … but not too much....

May 03, 2020

Septima Poinsette Clark, Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement

Common Prayer for Ordinary Radicals, in its May 3 entry, tells about one who was...

May 01, 2020

The DREAM Act was Introduced in Congress First by … Not a Democrat!

Stories from the Magazine of the Catholic University of America My copy of “Catholic,” the...

April 2020

April 19, 2020

About Butterflies and the Afterlife — A Neat Thought Heard on Public Radio

One of the reasons I like national public radio is that it recognizes that religion...

April 19, 2020

Thomas, a Saint for Social Media, and Another Thought from Divine Mercy Sunday’s Gospel

People used to say, “I’m from Missouri, show me” -- and you didn’t even have...

April 16, 2020

Father J. P. Grayland on Clerics’ Eucharistic Fast during Pandemic

A New Zealand parish priest has an interesting take on the Church’s liturgical response to...

April 06, 2020

Pandemic Prayer to Mary by Pope Francis

I just added a pandemic prayer, Pope Francis’ “Prayer to Mary during Coronavirus Pandemic,” to...

April 02, 2020

The Person and a Balthasarian Thought about Who I Am

Who am I? It’s a question addressed in parlor games, odd moments of reflection and...

March 2020

March 04, 2020

Bishop Robert Barron Pens “Letter” on Clergy Sex Abuse

For a communicator bishop like Bishop Robert Barron, Letter to a Suffering Church, on the...

December 2019

December 19, 2019

A Mass for Carlos Ortega and the Second Beatitude: Is There Comfort, in This World or the Next?

I wrote the Prayers of the Faithful for the Mass of Resurrection for my son-in-law...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

If Not Women Priests, then Women Cardinals

Bad and better arguments for male-only priesthood, but no reason to keep women out of...

September 2019

September 16, 2019

“This Page Intentionally Left Blank” and More Superfluous Words on the Feast of St. John Chrysostom

St. John Chrysostom, the “Golden Mouth,” has September 13 for his feast day. Famous for...

September 11, 2019

It’s Patriot Day. What Have We Learned from 9/11?

It’s Patriot Day, the anniversary of the most horrible attack on American soil since Pearl...

September 04, 2019

Have you heard of Greta Thunberg?

I was chatting with an old acquaintance up in St. Cloud. She’s from England and...

September 02, 2019

Conversion of an Angel: Some Corporations Show it can be Done

Writing about corporations is a strange way to honor labor – unless it’s about a...

August 2019

August 19, 2019

A Jeremiah for a Homilist – If Only!

“Jeremiah ought to be put to death,” the princes said to the king. The priest-homilist...

August 14, 2019

St. Maximilian Kolbe, Atomic Bomb, and a Strange Connection

Today is the feast day of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, priest, missionary, founder of monasteries,...

August 09, 2019

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Lamentation, Repentance, and Amendment

One of the things the Church should be able to teach the secular world is...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

Blessed Stanley Rother, Martyr, Has His First Feast Day

Yesterday, July 28, was the first feast day of Blessed Stanley Rother (ROW-ther). Fr. Rother,...

June 2019

June 19, 2019

Minnesota was Fourth State to Make Juneteenth State Holiday

Today is Juneteenth. It was only a few years ago I learned that June 19...

May 2019

May 27, 2019

Memorial Day and the Liturgies of a small town in Rural Minnesota

I don’t know what it’s like in your town, but in my town in rural...

April 2019

April 17, 2019

The Lord’s Prayer, the Prayer in the Garden, and “Lead Us Not into Temptation …”

For a long time I have wondered what to think about Pope Francis’s suggestion about changing the...

February 2019

February 15, 2019

Artificial Self-consciousness: Does My Robot Know that it Knows?

Reading a recent Patheos post by Russell Saltzman on artificial intelligence got me thinking. I’d...

November 2018

November 09, 2018

Single-Use is Word of the Year as Election Mostly Ignores Environment

I read in the Guardian that Collins Dictionary has named single-use the 2018 word of...

October 2018

October 12, 2018

Mankato, Minnesota, Puts Indigenous Peoples Day on the Calendar

It’s October 12, the day an Italian explorer made landfall in what would become the...

October 05, 2018

Sins as Evil as Abortion: Conclusions from Ancient Israelite and Modern European/American Experience

Abortion does not stand apart among sins that need challenging in the theater of American...

September 2018

September 07, 2018

Anti-Judaism: From Early Church to Basketball Courts and the Latest Religious Ed Videos

Anti-Judaism is represented (left photo)) in Medieval statues of...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Bishops Should Heed Call to End “Imperial Episcopate”

Bishops have a lot to think about these days. Maybe they should resign as a...

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