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June 2016

June 17, 2016

Is Premarital Kissing a Sin? and Other Quick Takes: 7QT XXII Seriatim

I Apparently there's a crisis of premarital kissing afoot, and Traddy bloggers must call it...

January 2016

January 14, 2016

Seven Reasons to Vote for Donald Trump. 7QT XXII Seriatim.

NEVER before in American history, dear reader, has a presidential race been as important as...

November 2015

November 27, 2015

No, Virginia, Blogs are Not the Magisterium. 7QT XXI Seriatim.

Blogs do oft proceed as though they are equal to the Magisterium, or judge the...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

How I Write. 7QT XX Seriatim.

When I was in graduate school (this was in the 1990s), I wrote everything longhand,...

January 2015

January 08, 2015

We Must Offend, and Other Quick Takes: 7QT XIX Seriatim

We must be willing to give offense, and be a sign of offense. This is...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

Even My Book Reviews Worry Protestants, & Other Quick Takes: 7QT XVIII Seriatim

1. The combox is not your blog. 2. Fred Phelps has gone to his eternal...

March 14, 2014

A Sovereign Pope Would Do Things My Way & Other Quick Takes: 7QT XVII Seriatim

1. If Francis were truly the sovereign we need, he would do what I say....

February 2014

February 28, 2014

The Order of These Forty Days: 7QT XVI Seriatim

Lent is my favorite season of the liturgical year. I never understood why it should...

February 21, 2014

Seven Reflections at the End of a Novitiate: 7QT XV Seriatim

In 2002, I read The Cloister Walk by American poet Kathleen Norris. The book details...

February 14, 2014

Seven Reasons to Read Simcha Fisher’s Book on Natural Family Planning: 7QT XIV Seriatim

If you talk to Simcha Fisher, she will tell you that she did not write...

February 07, 2014

Z-ophobia, FEMEN, & Other Quick Takes: 7QT XIII Seriatim

I saw the acronym LGBTA today, on a job board for freelancers; an “LGBTA” magazine...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Seven Anathemas on Super Bowl Sunday: 7QT XII Seriatim

In this post I am going to try a little blasphemy. I wonder greatly how...

January 24, 2014

Seven Reasons to Reject Catholic Fundamentalism About the Arts: 7QT XI Seriatim

To reject Dr. Marshall’s approach (i.e., the Beatles are "intellectual poison" and "straight-up evil") does...

January 17, 2014

Seven Quick Takes in Defense of Longhand: 7QT X Seriatim

Computer crashes helped me regain my sanity about how to write. The vile Dell off,...

January 03, 2014

Seven Resolutions in Search of a Blog Post: 7QT IX Seriatim

It is a New Year, and with every new year come the inevitable resolutions. The...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Seven Things to Do for Thanksgiving and Black Friday: 7QT VIII Seriatim

Thanksgiving is about people who left their home and gave up everything and endured hardship...

November 22, 2013

Seven Epiphanies That Made Me Catholic: 7QT VII Seriatim

Definitions matter, and words mean things. But sloppy usages abound, and they encourage confused thinking...

November 15, 2013

Seven More Books That Changed My Life: 7QT VI Seriatim

Being the only sequel I would ever dare to write, and only because the last...

November 08, 2013

Seven Books That Changed My Life: 7QT V Seriatim

The French novelist Jean Malaquais once said, “The only time I know something is true...

November 01, 2013

A Fulcrum and a Lever: Chiefly on Eucharistic Adoration: 7QT IV Seriatim

I can tell that it has been some time since I've been to Adoration. The...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

The Best Writing Advice I Ever Got & Other Quick Takes: 7QT III Seriatim

When I was a graduate student, I made a conscious effort to try not to...

October 18, 2013

The Apologist’s Anathema Against Twitter & Other Quick Takes: 7QT II Seriatim

"The medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan said. The message that comes across on Twitter...

October 11, 2013

I Hate Fads, So How Can I Get In On This One? And Other Quick Takes: 7QT I Seriatim

So I see this Seven Quick Takes fad everywhere I go in the Catholic blogosphere,...