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August 2018

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 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 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 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 01, 2017

The Church does not fit in your box

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

July 2017

July 26, 2017

Restlessness and Redemption Suffering (Throwback Thursday)

I've slowly been updating links from old, pre-Patheos posts, since the individual page links don't...

June 2017

June 17, 2017

To Destroy a Piece of Your Heart

There's a Solzhenitsyn quote which I love, and quote frequently--I quoted a related passage only...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

Modesty and the Naked Truth

I want to propose a definition for modesty that seems to me to fit all...

May 17, 2017

At The Personalist Project: The Sandals of Whatever

I snarked on Facebook earlier this week that everybody loves to talk about the shield...

May 15, 2017

How Not to Do Spiritual Warfare

In spiritual warfare, the enemy is always and everywhere the Enemy. Every soul is a...

May 10, 2017

Is This The Real Life?

(Or is this just fantasy?) I attended a very small Catholic college, with student life policies...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Fields of our hearts

I woke up this morning to the sound of a child retching in the bathroom....

April 11, 2017

When marriage hurts

There's a powerful guest post over at Simcha Fisher's blog today about abuse in Catholic...

March 2017

March 24, 2017

Drink Your Poison Yourself

I spent my morning on Facebook trying to communicate with a super-bitter, misogynistic geek guy with a...

March 21, 2017

The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer

We talk about living in a post-Christian era, but what does that actually look like? Does...