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January 2021

January 08, 2021

Welcome Back, Sick Pilgrims

From its inception, Sick Pilgrim was intended to reach Catholics and Catholics-in-exile on the margins....

March 2020

March 03, 2020

Stardust to Dust: Lent as a Search for the Marvelous and Sacred

On Ash Wednesday, to everyone’s surprise, especially mine, I went to the early morning mass...

February 2020

February 09, 2020

Dark Devotional: Four Horsemen

By guest writer Milo Meldrum 1. Conquest I want to control everything: the way...

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...

May 2017

May 11, 2017

I Walked into Suffering on the Road to Santiago

“For as long as humans have walked, they have walked to get closer to their...

March 2017

March 24, 2017

Dark Devotional: Faith and Doubt in the Labyrinth

I am easily led to anxiety in unfamiliar situations. I don’t like to do things...

March 08, 2017

It Didn’t Count: Sexual Assault and Virginity

“An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable,...

February 2017

February 02, 2017

The Grand Canyon by Wheelchair

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

January 2017

January 13, 2017

And The Title For The Sick Pilgrim Book Is….

Jess: What do you think we should name our book? Jonathan: I dunno, what...

January 10, 2017

Praying with Depression (and Children)

"I want us to recite the Lord’s Prayer together in the mornings as a family...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

The Dark Side of Christmas: The Murder of Innocents

“They said there’ll be snow at Christmas. They said there’ll be peace on Earth. But...

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 19, 2016

Jesus Frankenstein: Mary’s Baby and Mary Shelley’s Hideous Progeny

“I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion to be spurned at, and kicked,...

December 16, 2016

Dark Devotional: Fourth Sunday in Advent: Listen to the Misfits

A Reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah 56:1-3A, 6-8 I’m a misfit, especially as...

December 13, 2016

The Artist’s Fiat: An Interview with Sister Sinjin

I’ve been listening to Sister Sinjin’s new album, Incarnation, as a daily Advent prayer, and...

November 2016

November 25, 2016

Dark Devotional: First Sunday in Advent: Stay Awake

“You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep.” Romans...

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 17, 2016

Dark Devotional: Heaven is Where Bob Dylan Is

The Solemnity of Christ, the King of the Universe I rejoiced because they said to...

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...

November 07, 2016

Bear One Another’s Burdens This Election Day.

I looked around at my fellow Confirmands, most of them hiding zits with heavy doses...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

Jack Chick and The Year of Mercy.

HAW! HAW! HAW! My parents threw themselves into the charismatic movement of the late...

October 11, 2016

Spooky Pilgrim: Joanna’s Ghost Dreams

I am at my grandmother’s house, sitting with her at the kitchen table that’s been...

October 05, 2016

Spooky Pilgrim Strange but True Stories: Lehua’s Tale

(So, we here at Sick Pilgrim love all things spooky, weird and strange. We thought...

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...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Dark Devotional: Out of the Dust

The hand of the LORD came upon me, and led me out in the Spirit...

September 21, 2016

Art Won’t Make You a Better Person

A guest post from a Lutheran Sick Pilgrim, Joel Westerholm I’m in what I hope is...

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 24, 2016

The Mystery is Right Next to Us. Learn How to Find It.

In The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda pokes Luke Skywalker with his walking stick and...

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...