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March 2021

March 04, 2021

Taking the Long Way Home

This is the third week of our Lenten Series: Sick Pilgrim's Progress. You can read...

March 01, 2021

TKUG for March 1

Life is hard, even when there isn’t a pandemic looming. In my inner circle there...

February 2021

February 15, 2021

TKUG: Rolling Up on Lent Edition

Time flies when you are having fun (at home. In a pandemic.). Lent begins this...

February 01, 2021

Things Keeping Us Going: Winter Weather Edition

Here in New England, this winter has been rather mild—until this past week. We began...

January 2021

January 25, 2021

TKUG for January 25th

This is our first Things Keeping Us Going of the new semester AND of the...

January 18, 2021

TKUG–Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Edition

photo by Wikimedia commons It is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day here...

January 04, 2021

Things Keeping Us Going, New Year’s Edition

If there was ever a year to celebrate the ending of a year and the...

April 2020

April 01, 2020

Book Recommendation: Meditations on the Way of the Cross

In these days of stay-at-home-orders and closed churches, many of us are looking for...

March 2019

March 01, 2019

Dark Devotional: Where, O Death, Is Your Sting?

In the second reading, Paul writes to the Corinthians, “Death is swallowed up in...

February 2019

February 05, 2019

Advocacy and Exile: Roy Bourgeois and the Fight for Women’s Ordination

“What I came to, is that as Catholic priest, I was in a profession...

January 2019

January 21, 2019

Dark Devotional: Sunday in the Chapel of Split Ends and Hangnails

Body Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely...

December 2017

December 11, 2017

Write the Vision: Colorblind

In our next installment of "Write the Vision" - Sick Pilgrim's series featuring writers of...

August 2017

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....

March 2017

March 11, 2017

That viral video of the interrupted professor? I don’t think it’s funny.

It crowded my newsfeed on Friday, accompanied by many “LOLs” and my favorite “laughing to...

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 02, 2017

The Grand Canyon by Wheelchair

Maybe I missed out on a fundamental aspect of being a Cajun. Maybe my ancestors...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

Advent: The Catholic Church IS the Rebellion

A few days ago, I was talking about the new Star Wars movie, Rogue One...

December 14, 2016

Adventures of an Agnostic in the Weird World of Catholicism

When my roommates first told me that they were going to get time off...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

“Thanks” Keeping Us Alive – November

This month...this year...has been a trying time for many of us us. And we at...

November 28, 2016

Looking for the Feast

Our family had an unusual Thanksgiving this year. Burnt out from a busy autumn, and...

November 25, 2016

The Broken Body of Christ at the Border

Last month, I attended Mass at the border; I was part of a community of...

November 22, 2016

Hot Mess Hospitality: Against the Art-Directed Life

There are two truths I must tell you. I have to tell you that I...

November 18, 2016

The Anointing of a Sick Pilgrim

I hobbled into church yesterday for the Rite of the Anointing of the Sick, holding the...

November 16, 2016

10 Relics That Prove Catholics Have No Chill About the Communion of Saints

We're celebrating community here at Sick Pilgrim this month, based on the fact that we...

November 14, 2016

Radical Spaces of Welcome

“That’s one kind of localism, I guess, and one kind of politics – doing your...

November 09, 2016

We Keep Ramblin’ On… (Some Post-Election Thoughts)

In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo laments to Gandalf about having to carry the...