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April 2020

April 03, 2020

Fasting Friday: Thinking about Hell

Lent is a good time for facing hard things and Fasting Fridays seem to me...

April 01, 2020

Prayer Wednesday: Wonder and Prayer

The common mother of art, philosophy, science, and religion is Wonder. The world pours out...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

Almsgiving Monday: Three Ways to Give

I'm a huge fan of Mercy for Life, a delightful little apostolate in Uganda run...

March 27, 2020

Fasting Friday: George Soros and the Revival of Antisemitic Tropes

John Zmirak recently delivered himself of this ipse dixit to any potential convert to the...

March 25, 2020

Prayer Wednesday: Joseph Pearce on the Annunciation and the Downfall of Barad-dur

Joseph Pearce reflects on Tolkien's destruction of the One Ring on March 25, which one...

March 23, 2020

Almsgiving Monday: Who Killed the Knapp Family?

A reader sends along this piece from the Grey Lady, remarking: This is horrifying. A...

March 20, 2020

Fasting Friday: The Spirit and the Letter

The rules for fasting and abstinence in the United States are: Every person 14 years or older must abstain...

March 18, 2020

Prayer Wednesday: Protestant MegaChurch Guy Discovers the Real Presence

It's always enjoyable to watch a good-hearted person start to discover the historical Church and...

March 16, 2020

Almsgiving Monday: An Argument About the Old “What About Putting Vets, Not Refugees, First?” Lie

Almsgiving is, above all, about seeing and taking practical steps to care for those who...

March 13, 2020

Fasting Friday: Ten Meaningful Ways to Fast During Lent

Here's a nifty piece that might be of help if you find fasting to be...

March 11, 2020

Prayer Wednesday : A reader struggles with scruples about Netflix

Prayer is about the conversation of the soul with God, and that often includes wrestling...

March 09, 2020

Almsgiving Monday: For those of you fascinated by super-duper theological Inside Baseball…

...here is a draft of my stab at explaining the Filioque Controversy to somebody who...

March 06, 2020

Fasting Friday: Isaiah 58 and a Reader’s Lament

A reader (who is Catholic and staunchly opposed to abortion) describes the real and lasting...

March 04, 2020

Prayer Wednesday: Prophylactic vs. Prelude

It has become a truism that whenever pious hypocrites want to avoid actually doing something...

March 02, 2020

Almsgiving Monday: St. John Chrysostom: Komminniss

“I am often reproached for continually attacking the rich. Yes, because the rich are continually...

March 08, 2019

Thoughts on My Brutal Friday Penance

My wife and I were amused to discover that, according to The Rules, we have...

March 07, 2019

Living Lent When You Stink at It

I’m pretty lousy at doing Lent. So I’m a natural for yakking about it since...

March 23, 2017

It’s a good thing we did not appoint Garland to SCOTUS

...or elect Hillary Clinton, because then we would have gotten a SCOTUS judge who insisted...

March 17, 2017

Deacon Steve Greydanus is Right

Sez he: Happy St Patrick's Day! If you're Catholic, and you have a Saint Patrick's...

March 10, 2017

Over at Northwest Catholic…

...Yr. Obdt. Svt. is discussing "Lent for Newbies".

March 08, 2017

My chum Liz DiNunzio the atheist and I have been chatting

She's an atheist who has found herself of late surprised to discover a number of...

March 07, 2017

David Mills Urges us to Give up the Church (really Church Politics)…

for Lent: Your feelings about the goings on in the Knights of Malta, or Cardinal...

March 27, 2015

Something for the Last Friday in Lent

Catholics! Remember that today you cannot eat this! Don't give any further thought to this...

March 17, 2015

Measured Pain

My friend Andy Simons has a nifty Lenten piece on mortification over at Commonweal.

February 2015

February 26, 2015

The Temptation of Christ…

...is under discussion over at the Register.

February 26, 2015

The Wacky World of Postmodernism

Postmodern culture is, among other things, all about the subjectivization of everything. It is, like...

February 19, 2015

A Chance to Do a Lenten Work of Mercy

A reader passes this along: My family is asking for assistance in obtaining appropriate care...

February 18, 2015

It’s Marcel LeJeune’s Annual Big Ol’ Lenten Megapost

...with TONS of information, links, videos, and suggestions for Lent.

February 16, 2015

The Intolerable Compliment of God…

...is trouble. We talk about it over at the Register.

March 2014

March 17, 2014

Tom Kreitzberg is always so beautifully pithy

Sez he: In this year's Lenten message, Pope Francis writes: "For you know the grace...

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