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May 2018

May 08, 2018

Reclaiming Mary

I was an evangelical Christian first, a convert to Catholicism later in life. Mary was...

May 02, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part VIII

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will be...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part VII

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will...

April 16, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part V

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will...

April 10, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part IV

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will be...

April 04, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part III

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will be...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part II

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will be...

March 29, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part VI

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will...

March 26, 2018

An Offering in Betrayal – A Holy Week Meditation

"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack,...

March 19, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part I

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Sick Pilgrim is featuring a series...

December 2017

December 03, 2017

Write the Vision: God’s Kingdom Come

One of the things Sick Pilgrim has done, and does well, is to open space...

September 2017

September 30, 2017

Welcome to Spooky Pilgrim Month: Looking for Places of the Uncanny and Strange

The Nicene Creed tells us that God is the Creator of all things "Seen and...

September 06, 2017

Wind River and The Death of the “Godly Man.”

(Spoilers Ahead) A few nights ago, I returned from dropping off my kids and decided...

August 2017

August 28, 2017

Narcissism, Exorcism, and the True Nature of Evil

Sixty years ago, C.S. Lewis began his book, Mere Christianity by giving us an example...

August 13, 2017

St. Maximilian Kolbe, Pray for Me, a Sinner, and a White Man.

I'm a white male, age 35-45. According to all statistics and research, I have power...

July 2017

July 06, 2017

The Bats of St. Alphonsus

As a writer and artist, people ask me why I’ve gotten back into parish work....

June 2017

June 19, 2017

Séance with the Freudenabteilung (or, Communing with Dead Nazi Sex Slaves): Listening to Joy Division as Religious Experience

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not...

May 2017

May 08, 2017

The Theology of Suffering Questions the Benedict Option

Allow me to tell you a story. A few years ago, I went through the...

April 2017

April 12, 2017

13 Reasons Why: Netflix Invites us to Spiritual Works of Mercy For Holy Week

(Two alerts. This review talks about rape, bullying and suicide. It also contains a lot...

April 11, 2017

Stations of the Cross: A Spectator to the Execution

You have my whole heart. You always did. —Cormac McCarthy, The Road Imagine for...

April 10, 2017

For the People Who Cry During Holy Week

On Palm Sunday, we process into church waving blessed fronds. The priest walks amongst us,...

April 07, 2017

RIP Rich Mullins: Palm Sunday Dark Devotional

"You had no stones to throw You came without an ax to grind You did...

March 2017

March 19, 2017

St. Joseph’s Altar: The Lenten Feast?

Every year in my school, the classes would take a bus to a nearby banquet...

March 08, 2017

Road Trip Homilies: Wounded Knee and the Snake Givers

As I walked along a sandy path in Badlands National Park, I noticed a sign...

February 2017

February 21, 2017

Why Are We So Afraid of Mercy and Our Own Heretical Little Hearts?

As I sort through the events of the past few months, I've tried to figure...

February 10, 2017

Destruction As Grace – Dark Devotional

I stared up at the Basilica in hate. I hated them. Every single one of...

February 09, 2017

To Bill Nye, Fellow Ataxian

...while Nye dreams of outer space, it's his own DNA that worries him. "My family...

February 06, 2017

Are You a Child of Thunder? Or a Vigilante of Love?

On the first Sunday of the year, my priest printed out slips of...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

Tim Powers: Trying to Say God

*This is the second post in our series of features on the writers, musicians and artists...

January 24, 2017

Screwtape Does America

(At four o'clock this morning, I (Jonathan) woke up and thought about the events...