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January 2021

January 24, 2021

When a Good Catholic Girl Goes Bad

I was so skinny as a teenager that the pediatrician started asking concerned questions...

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 08, 2017

Blog of the Year

When I told my fellow pilgrims that we'd received an award for faith-based blog of...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Dark Devotional: John Wayne Gacy and Me

I don't remember where I hid the bodies or how I struck them down. Many...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

A Back to School Prayer for the Weirdos (and their weirdo parents)

I wrote this essay six years ago, before my daughter was diagnosed with autism and my google...

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...

April 2016

April 24, 2016

About a year ago, I took one of my many trips to Utah, which has...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

The Dark Devotional: St. Thomas Didymus: A Heart Made Double by Breaking

Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So...

March 30, 2016

Light One Candle

Every week after Mass I light a candle. I love the smell of hot wax...

February 2016

February 11, 2016

Dark Devotional: First Sunday of Lent: The Devil Inside

Click here for the complete Mass readings for the First Sunday of Lent 2016. A reading...

February 09, 2016

Dark Devotional: Ash Wednesday 2016: Bring on the Night

Click for the complete Mass readings for Ash Wednesday 2016. Psalm 51: 12 Give me...

February 05, 2016

The Dark Devotional: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Deep Waters

Click here for the complete mass readings for Sunday, February 7, 2016. I'm drifting in...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Sick Pilgrims: Jack Kerouac

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are...

January 21, 2016

Keeping Christianity Weird: Nadia Bolz-Weber and Heather King

The Washington Post described Lutheran Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber as a "superhero from Planet Alternative Christian:"...

December 2015

December 10, 2015

Welcome, Sick Pilgrims

"...people often seemed perplexed by Frank and Maisie's enthusiasms, and published them with little hope...