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May 2019

May 01, 2019

Since It’s Mary’s Day…

I thought it would be good to talk a bit about her. Here's a bit...

April 2019

April 30, 2019

A Reader Ponders Becoming Orthodox

They write: I'm thinking of actually converting to orthodox. My dad was. I've been reading...

April 29, 2019

Another typically brilliant piece from Where Peter Is

These guys never fail to be thoughtful. From the crisis of today the Church of...

April 27, 2019

Avengers 1999!

The most astonishingly pitch-perfect mashup by a fan ever made.

April 26, 2019

Steven Greydanus on Avengers: Endgame

Steven and I have had a long-running gag "fight" going on about super-hero movies vs....

April 25, 2019

I love Leah Libresco-Sargeant and I Love Everything She Says Here

She's a far better disciple of Jesus than I am.

April 24, 2019

Prudence and Climate Change

Here's a piece I just published with St. Anthony Messenger: Recently, Al Gore remarked, "I’m...

April 23, 2019

Why the Third Day?: Part 2

There are, in fact, a number of passages in the Old Testament which could be...

April 22, 2019

Why the Third Day?: Part 1

The Resurrection is a work of God the Blessed Trinity. All three Persons of the...

April 21, 2019

Easter

Sonnet for Easter We are not damned for, but by, our sin. It was not...

April 20, 2019

Holy Saturday

Limbo by Sister Mary Ada The ancient greyness shifted Suddenly and thinned Like mist upon...

April 19, 2019

Good Friday

We are meant to feel that his life was in that sense a sort of...

April 18, 2019

Holy Thursday

Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean BY WILLIAM BLAKE Twas...

April 17, 2019

A Medieval English Poem Translated for Spy Wednesday…

... a Clerk of Oxford It was upon a Sheer Thursday* that our Lord arose,...

April 16, 2019

Talking with a Friend Who Fears Francis

Please forgive me if the capitalization in this post is hinky. My keyboard is on...

April 15, 2019

Palm Sunday and Jesus’ Claim to be the Christ

Jesus’ other “name” is not a name at all but a title. “Christ” means "Anointed...

April 13, 2019

Two Articles on Faith and Science

One of the things that Native American cultures have done for postmoderns is make a...

April 12, 2019

Fasting Friday 5

On this last Friday in Lent before Good Friday, here are the last of the...

April 11, 2019

A reader has a question about Mary and Eve

He writes: I have a few questions and thought you might be able to point...

April 10, 2019

Prayer Wednesday – Psalm 51

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your merciful love; according to your abundant...

April 09, 2019

The Woman Taken in Adultery and the Judgment of God

Here's a little piece I wrote a while back for Saint Anthony Messenger. Given that...

April 08, 2019

Almsgiving Monday 5 – Fr. Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries offers a moving speech

You can go here to support the work of Homeboy Industries being as how this...

April 06, 2019

Another Pun Bites the Dust

No regrets. No apologies.

April 05, 2019

Fasting Friday 4

More penitential suggestions from Deacon Nick, with my commentary as an ordinary lay slobovian making...

April 04, 2019

Where Peter Is plays a little game…

of "Which Pope Said This?": “As the years went by and the Church spread further...

April 03, 2019

Prayer Wednesday 4 – The Apologist’s Evening Prayer

One of the reasons I've always appreciated C.S. Lewis is that he understood there was...

April 02, 2019

China’s *Other* Cardinal

The invaluable blog Where Peter Is offers another invaluable insight--this time into the Chinese Church....

April 01, 2019

Almsgiving Monday 4 – Helping the Poor Stop Being Poor

Dom Helder Camara famously remarked, “When I give food to the poor, they call me...

March 2019

March 30, 2019

Saturdays are better with flaming trombones

You're welcome!

March 29, 2019

Fasting Friday 3

More fasting ideas cribbed from Deacon Nick Senger with comments from Yr Obdt Svt: Each...

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