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August 2018

August 28, 2018

A Way Wherein There Is No Ecstasy

You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again,...

August 16, 2018

How to Reform the Church

From a letter to Pope Paul V by Saint John Leonardi, priest: Those who want...

August 15, 2018

Feeling Betrayed by the Church? Look to the Saints

St. Norbert's ministry didn't begin until he was literally knocked off his horse during a...

August 09, 2018

Would I walk 600 miles?

I'm working on a project that has me writing very condensed descriptions of various saints,...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

No Hiding Place for McCarrick in the age of Me Too

Cardinal McCarrick. Or should I say, ex-Cardinal McCarrick. Lord have mercy. I assume you've all heard...

June 2018

June 01, 2018

Choices: Glimpses of Good (Four Weeks of Fine Men)

Today, I want to share with you some of the small glimpses of good readers...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Honour in the “Friend Zone”: Luke (Four Weeks of Fine Men #7)

Last Fall, the Patheos Catholic channel was rocked by a scandal--the revelation that one of...

May 28, 2018

When Heroes Have Clay Feet (a note on #tonicmasculinity)

I took this weekend away from the computer to breathe a bit, enjoy the nice...

May 25, 2018

Actions Speak Loudest: Arnie Clarke (Four Weeks of Fine Men #5)

This is a guest post by Sheila Marie Connolly, who agreed to write about her...

May 01, 2018

All These Things Will Be Given To You As Well

So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or...

April 2018

April 06, 2018

What a fictional wizard taught me about fear, faith, and friendship

This is a post about a wizard named Harry, and a lesson I needed to...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

It’s Not About You

*NB. Plug in just about any other parenting choice within the range of normal and...

February 19, 2018

Lovely in Eyes Not His

I loved Mr. Rogers when I was a child. Simcha has a lovely reflection...

December 2017

December 25, 2017

The Stable of Our Hearts

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should...

December 14, 2017

The Mindful Mutt

I feel like I've been going a dozen different directions this Advent, trying to be...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

Poetry Will Save the World (Seven Quick Takes)

My sister-in-law says I don't understand the "Quick" part of "Seven Quick Takes." She's probably...no,...

November 18, 2017

Guarding the Sanctity of the Sick Pilgrim and the Broken Spirit

Yesterday, I ranted briefly about "Men Behaving Badly to Get Their Rocks Off." The big...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I love Halloween. I always have. When I was a child, I loved Halloween...

October 12, 2017

“What do NFL protesters want, anyway?” Cultivating the Virtue of Curiousity

I spend a lot of time with Google. When I was a child, arguments between...

October 02, 2017

Weeding the Garden of Good and Evil

I must thank Simcha for saying so well what I have tried to say elsewhere. In...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

The consistent ethic of abolitionist William Wilberforce

This is the second part of a three part series on single-issue activism and social...

September 15, 2017

LifeSiteNews gets it wrong about abolition–and everything else

This is the first part of a three-part essay on single-issue activism and social justice. ...

September 14, 2017

The Peace of Wild Things

After waving my youngest off to school on the bus yesterday morning, I found my...

September 11, 2017

Not sure which door to take? Look toward love.

When I was a student, we called young men and women who waffled for years...

September 07, 2017

Selling the Stranger in Our Midst: The Numbers Behind Immigration Policy

The Church has recognized and proclaimed the need to welcome young people: 'Whoever welcomes one...

September 01, 2017

The Church does not fit in your box

“I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against...

August 2017

August 13, 2017

A Litany for Charlottesville

St. Martin de Porres, pray for us St. Josephine Bakhita, pray for us St. Antonio...

August 09, 2017

I decline to accept the end of man

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now...

August 02, 2017

“The disabled can only create unhappiness”: Why we need to talk about suffering

This morning I watched a L'Arche video about a massacre of disabled individuals that happened...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Where I end and you begin: Zen and the problem of Christ

I have a couple of new posts up at The Personalist Project sparked by...