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October 2016

October 12, 2016

Scary Things You Should Watch (Other than the Presidential Election)

Like most of you, we are horrified at the progression of this presidential election. It's...

October 09, 2016

Five Sacramentally Scary Books You Should Read for Halloween

(Possible Spoilers Ahead) As a supernatural thriller writer, I'm asked all the time about...

October 06, 2016

Spooky Pilgrim Ghost Stories: Julia’s Tale

Sick Pilgrim reader Julia Kriz Dzierma sent in today's totally true ghost story. If you want...

October 04, 2016

Why Are Your Kids Leaving the Church? They’re Materialist Magicians

As someone who watches Catholic media for a living, it's hard to ignore the mass...

October 02, 2016

Notre Dame and Sick Pilgrim will host Mary Karr and others for “Trying to Say God,” A New Kind of Catholic Literary Conference

UPDATED! Sick Pilgrim has partnered with the University of Notre Dame to create a new...

October 01, 2016

October, Sick Pilgrim style: Patron of the month, Creepy Fulton Sheen

October is our favorite month for so many reasons. Down in southern Louisiana, the weather...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

Why Do We Need The Exorcist and Pope Francis? A Review

I grew up not far from St. Louis University, a Jesuit institution in the...

September 21, 2016

I took a crash course in Gregorian chant. Literally.

When the email circulated that there would be a traditional Latin Mass at our parish...

September 20, 2016

Mud Wrestling with Angels Unawares: When Catholic Art is Dark (Or Ugly)

As a Catholic poet, I was excited to read this article about why the Catholic...

September 14, 2016

We’re All Catfishers….

My heart broke when I read Chase Padusniak's catfishing post and his story of being taken...

September 08, 2016

Dark Devotional: I Don’t Believe in the Fatherhood of God, do you?

When it comes to the story of the Prodigal Son, it's hard to...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

3 Things That Every Convert/Revert Wants Cradles to Know (No, This Ain’t a Cosmo Article)

Since I work in the Disneyland for Catholics (Notre Dame), I see all kinds of...

August 28, 2016

Set the table and open the door: How to get youth (and other troubled souls) in the church

“When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your...

August 24, 2016

Lament for the Louisiana Flood

I was born and raised in southern Louisiana, and flooding was a fact of life in...

August 22, 2016

Being Catholic, Being Cajun: Catholic Identity and its Discontents

The calamity in my neck of the woods, Southern Louisiana, is pervasive. My entire community has...

August 19, 2016

Dark Devotional: The Kingdom of God is for Losers, Weirdos, and Strange People

A few years ago, Stephen Colbert did a hilarious video about the need to...

August 17, 2016

Try and Make it to the River: A Conversation with Michael Delp about Fulton Sheen and the Eucharist

When men see Han-shan They all say he's crazy And not much to look at...

August 15, 2016

The Tradition of the Catholic Ghost Story: Call for Submissions!

Last year, Ave Maria Press (my place of gainful employment) celebrated 150 years of...

August 11, 2016

Dark Devotional: Enduring Unto Death

Hebrews 12:1-4 Brothers and sisters: Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud...

August 09, 2016

Seeking Tanis: The Search for Enchantment Leads (Back) to the Church

"When I say the first line of the Lord's Prayer: 'Our Father, who art in...

August 08, 2016

Confession: Is it Really Good for the Soul? Or is that just BS?

A few weeks ago, I attended the Applied Biblical Studies Conference at Franciscan University...

August 05, 2016

Dark Devotional: Grab Your Loins and Go

Growing up in the Midwest, I have a few rough edges. Jess (and other women...

August 02, 2016

Being a Dad is Hard….even for Harry Potter (a review)

(Ridiculous Spoilers Ahead) It took until the fourth Harry Potter book released for me to...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Dark Devotional: Obsessive Compulsive Ecclesiastes

"Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and yet to...

July 27, 2016

Resistance is our Charism: Why Sick Pilgrims are Catholic rebels with a cause

People are always asking what Sick Pilgrim is about and what we want to accomplish....

July 20, 2016

Sick Pilgrim Chats: Jonathan and Jess Bingewatch Stranger Things

Sick Pilgrim started when we, Jess and Jonathan, two writers and editors, started chatting...

July 18, 2016

I went to Communion and You’ll Never Believe What Happened Next!

I saw that it is the will of Christ’s love to be put into the hands...

July 14, 2016

St. Kateri, Pray for the National Parks and Against Our Abuse of God’s Creation

I'm something of a National Park fanatic. On my cubicle wall at Ave Maria Press,...

July 10, 2016

Dark Devotional: Who is My Neighbor?

There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and said,...

July 07, 2016

When White People Worship Death, Black People Die.

How does a white person write about what's going on in our country with the...