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September 2018

September 10, 2018

A reader struggles with his faith and asks for my advice

A reader writes I'm sure you get lots of emails like this, especially these days....

September 08, 2018

Saturday is a Nice Day to Relax and Enjoy Catholic Nerd Music

Here is a project called Clamavi de Profundis. They do Catholic: And they do Nerd:

September 07, 2018

Part Seven of My Series at the Catholic Weekly…

...on God the Father: Because of our tendency to rip truth out of the weave...

September 06, 2018

On the Dumb Nike Flap

Here is what is the real problem with Nike and always has been: it is...

September 05, 2018

If you are looking for some fun books for kids 7-10…

...may I recommend Brandon Hale's delightful (and growing) little series? A fun Christmas present (though...

September 04, 2018

Sherry Weddell Speaks the Truth

She writes: I've spent the last 21 years traveling the highways and byways of the...

September 03, 2018

A reader ponders Trump’s policy of child abuse and torture at the border

She writes from Canada: Attached are three stories from the CBC that you will probably...

September 01, 2018

Conversation with a Reader About the Crisis

He writes: There must be a reformation in the Church. Not in the Catholic FAITH,...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Kathryn Lopez Recently Interviews My Friend Dr. Dawn Eden Goldstein

I love Dawn. She was out her in Seattle last week and we had lunch...

August 30, 2018

An Invitation to Talk about Healing in My Comboxes

I did this with my Facebook readers a couple of weeks ago and it was...

August 29, 2018

Today’s New Facts I Learned About the Palace Coup

So I'm, like, blissfully unaware of how the complexities of the Vatican work as it...

August 28, 2018

Today’s Palace Coup News

Here is all we actually, documentably know. A man with a huge grudge against Francis...

August 28, 2018

My series on Catholic Social Teaching

Back in 2016, I wrote a series of pieces on Catholic Social Teaching for the...

August 27, 2018

The Vatican Soap Opera Continues

John Allen is usually a pretty good guy to turn to for sorting wheat from...

August 27, 2018

Part Six of my Series on God the Father

...is up over at The Catholic Weekly: Last time, in this space we talked about the...

August 25, 2018

On Awful Bishops and the Retention of Faith

So the other day I posted this on the Book of Face: "I didn't come...

August 24, 2018

Here’s a little blast from the past…

...made timely again by the various calls from various sectors for us to do penance...

August 23, 2018

Part 5 of my series on God the Father

over at The Catholic Weekly is up: Babies come from mommies and daddies, cars come...

August 22, 2018

Thoughts and Prayers without Works is Dead

For a documented period of time spanning 70 years, priests ranging from lowly parish priests...

August 21, 2018

Statement of Catholic Theologians, Educators, Parishioners, and Lay Leaders On Clergy Sexual Abuse in the United States

You can go here to add your signature. God has shown the strength of God’s...

August 20, 2018

Had a painful, but I hope fruitful, conversation about the Scandal with Kristine Franklin

...on Connecting the Dots. Give it a listen here:

August 18, 2018

St. Dorothy Day, Now More Than Ever

Ol' Dot's canonization is still active, and we have never needed a saint like her...

August 17, 2018

Finding Hope in the Crisis

It's been a helluva week for the American Church. The hideous scabs ripped off the...

August 16, 2018

The Dominican Sisters of Mary Continue Their Good Work

August 15, 2018

Assumption

For endless eons, Mother Earth has strained Heavenward. Strange sea life with new-minted eyes bumping...

August 15, 2018

Holy Mary, Mother of God, Deliver Us from Clericalism

All the warnings in the gospels are given, not to Those Unbelievers Over There but...

August 14, 2018

There’s a reason I regard Trump as a dimestore antichrist

And it is spelled pretty well in this video: Yep. I'm aware of who Reza...

August 13, 2018

Gabbed with Tom McDonald about his new project, Weird Catholic, on Connecting the Dots

I love the artwork, by John Herreid: You can visit his website here. Oodles...

August 11, 2018

Talking with a reader about this Kairos Moment in the Church

She writes: I was struck by something as I read recently, and I have a...

August 10, 2018

A reader has a question about purgatory

He writes: I've read some of your stuff and listened to your journey from Protestant...

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