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September 2014

September 10, 2014

I’ll be speaking in Manchester, NH in a few weeks

... at the Mom's Night Out at Ste. Marie Parish Campus on Carter St., on...

September 09, 2014

I’ll be on Radio Maria’s “From the Rooftops” Wednesday morning

Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers was tons of fun to talk to last time, when we...

September 09, 2014

Love, Blame and Hope in the Movie MUD

PIC Mud poster This movie wasn't about what is wrong with women, or what...

September 08, 2014

Men, try whispering these seven simple words into your woman’s ear, and watch her melt.

"I did that insurance paperwork for you." PIC woman swooning

September 05, 2014

Why I don’t say “I’m so blessed.”

The other day, a woman lashed out at me for announcing my latest pregnancy online....

September 04, 2014

What About Behavioral and Spiritual Arguments Against Vaccines?

PIC vaccine As we can see from Tuesday's post and the response to it, it's...

September 03, 2014

How I feel at Patheos sometimes

Especially with all the hotshot upstarts amazing talent Elizabeth has been bringing on board lately, like Kyle Cupp, Artur...

September 02, 2014

Science, Catholics, and Fear

PIC doctor pocking cash More and more, religious people are pitching their tents in...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

My dream self thinks the new evangelization is mainly about cookies.

One of the major perks of blogging at Patheos is that Elizabeth Scalia occasionally shares...

August 28, 2014

I was late to listen to Sam Rocha’s “Late to Love.” My mistake!

If you're even peripherally involved with Catholic media, you will know that peculiar dread...

August 28, 2014

Holiness is a numbers game, you filthy relativist!

You never know what the morning will bring. I just got into a weird little...

August 28, 2014

What did the Pope mean by “sins against unity”?

PIC house with cracked foundation Ideas are like houses, and other people are like ....

August 26, 2014

Catholics with a Past

"The man who has not suffered, what can he possibly know, anyway?" says Rabbi Abraham...

August 25, 2014

How to make a shelf in, like, two minutes

1. Get a milk crate, find a strong clothes hanger, force the arms of the...

August 25, 2014

My new bumper sticker!

Just a quick post! Lots to do. I just wanted to say: 1. Mary's Shelter...

August 22, 2014

The Case for Siblings: Why Having a Baby Is Good for Your Other Kids

[This post originally ran at Faith and Family Live in 2010, when I was pregnant with #8....

August 21, 2014

At the Register: Ten things I learned the hard way about sending kids to school

10. You're not going to get an ideal education in a brick and mortar school. You're...

August 20, 2014

I have a job for you, baby.

Not the little guy who just kicked me for the first time, that...

August 19, 2014

At the Register: The Culture of Blechh

What kind of person responds to someone's joy with an agenda? I don't even care...

August 18, 2014

My dream self is a raging jerk.

A reader had this dream about me last night: You had some sort of Catholic...

August 15, 2014

Fine, I’m pregnant!

See? Too tired and gassy to come up with any announcement more adorable...

August 14, 2014

At the Register: Lessons from the ER

--One of the greatest functions of the ER is to illustrate for your children why...

August 13, 2014

Faith, reason, depression, and help

PIC bug in jar There's a lot of bad information about depression, suicide,...

August 12, 2014

Give me a dumb kid any day.

Today, we went for kindergarten screening with my five-year-old (here in the persona of "A...

August 12, 2014

At the Register: What does the Church teach about suicide?

The modern Church understands that depression and other psychological disturbances that might lead a person...

August 11, 2014

“Pop! Out comes the corpse!” or, fun with the Fishers

Our summer library reading program ended not with a bang, but a howl, then a...

August 11, 2014

Fearless Clare, Intercede for Iraq

Today is the feast day of St. Clare, the abbess who faced down the invading Saracens...

August 07, 2014

At the Register: God and the Hungry Belly

[L]et's make a distinction here. Christ and the saints exhort us to deny ourselves, to voluntarily...

August 06, 2014

Ann Coulter to Jesus: Fix Bethlehem First!

People keep telling me that I don't understand Ann Coulter's tone: that she speaks tongue...

August 05, 2014

My upcoming speaking gigs

I keep meaning to add this to my speaker's page. In the mean time, here...