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May 2020

May 31, 2020

Three Myths About Antifa

President Trump recently tweeted that he's going to designate antifa a terrorist organization. Plenty of...

May 30, 2020

Poem: Whitsunday Eve

I wrote this poem for Pentecost on my old site a couple of years ago....

May 28, 2020

Catholic Social Teaching—An Incomplete Index

I'm planning a series on why, as a Catholic, leftism is good actually. In preparation,...

May 20, 2020

The Ascension and the Eucharist

Tonight is the vigil of Christ's Ascension. Forty days after he rose from the grave,...

May 13, 2020

New Book Excerpt

I'm working on a new book, non-fiction this time: basically, it's "Mudblood Catholic, the book."...

May 06, 2020

SEX!

Now that I have your attention, SEX! You know, that thing my blog is inextricably...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

Why Pro-Lifers Should Vote Blue: Postscript

Intro; The Misters President; The Unsafety Net; The Catch Closing out this series, I'd feel...

April 22, 2020

Why Pro-Lifers Should Vote Blue: The Catch

Intro; The Misters President; The Unsafety Net So far we've taken a look at some...

April 17, 2020

Insomnia

I don't know whether my sleep schedule is irrevocably screwed up because I took one...

April 09, 2020

Good Friday Fasting

We've come to the close of Lent. Tonight the Triduum begins with the Maundy Thursday...

April 05, 2020

Meditations for Holy Week

Palm Sunday The beginning of Christendom is, strictly, at a point out of time. A...

March 2020

March 23, 2020

COVID-19: Blog and General Info Updates

As you've perhaps noticed, shit has grown decidedly real. I'm low-key freaked out. I had a...

March 14, 2020

Why Pro-Lifers Should Vote Blue: The Unsafety Net

Intro; The Misters President Sorry to go radio-silent for so long there—had a couple heavy...

February 2020

February 28, 2020

Why Pro-Lifers Should Vote Blue: The Misters President

Intro Hey, sweaties. In my last, I went over single-issue voting versus the "seamless garment"...

February 19, 2020

Why Pro-Lifers Should Vote Blue: Intro

The issue of abortion has been the chief political rallying point for conservative Catholics and...

February 13, 2020

Five Quick Takes

I. I haven't really got out of the doldrums I described in my last post...

January 2020

January 29, 2020

Since My Last Confession

I'm sitting at my desk, drinking a beer and listening to Dishwalla (shut up), and...

January 23, 2020

Five Quick Takes

I. Busy week, so I've put my series on Just War Theory on the backburner...

January 15, 2020

Catholicism, War, America, and Christ: The Conditions of Just War

Intro; Part One Every life is sacred. The only reason the Church can even consider...

January 08, 2020

Catholicism, War, America, and Christ: Violence and Warfare

Intro Violence is a bad thing. This basic truth—intuitive enough to most people that I...

January 05, 2020

Catholicism, War, America, and Christ: Intro

A nice easy set of topics to cover, but don't worry, I'll be 100% objective....

December 2019

December 31, 2019

2019 Revue: Boy, This Year Sure Did Exist

Every New Year's Eve, I do an arts review—good stuff that came out (or that...

December 26, 2019

CATS: A Review

One rarely sees a film whose principal message to its audience appears to be "So...

December 17, 2019

Silent Night

I haven't been able to write much for the blog of late. For the last...

December 09, 2019

In the Eye Of, Part Two

Part One Content warning: descriptions of sexual maturation, queerphobic slurs Honestly, this part was hard...

December 07, 2019

In the Eye Of, Part One

There's a real gap in understanding, I find, between most straight Catholics' experience of Catholic...

December 04, 2019

A Program for Reform, Part Four

Part One; Part Two; Part Three And now we come to the salacious part, the...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

A Program for Reform, Part Three

Financial corruption is another major element that runs throughout the Church's scandals. It takes money...

November 20, 2019

A Program for Reform, Part Two

Part One Let's start with some suggestions for reforming authority structures in the Church, shall...

November 15, 2019

A Program for Reform, Part One

Wanna mess around and massively reform the Catholic Church? haha jk ... unless? The sex...