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January 2015

January 12, 2015

Mark Shea shares his radio show with me again today

5-6 PM Eastern! Listen live here at Real Life Radio. Hope you can join us,...

January 11, 2015

Hooray, I wrote a bizarre book that should have been stopped!

At least according to Tiffany Willis, in her piece 27 Bizarre Religious Book Titles that Should...

January 09, 2015

I’m tired of hearing that everything crappy is feminized.

photo by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, available from What did Cardinal Burke actually...

January 09, 2015

Help me name my baby!

Oh, fun! Sancta Nomina is a blog devoted to Catholic baby names, and the author has...

January 08, 2015

The abortion lie that just won’t die

image by Thierry Geoffroy via Wikimedia Commons It's expensive to run a medical facility, and...

January 08, 2015

Since when does the Pope meet with porn stars?

Crux is running a quickie story headlined Pope meets two American stars: Angelina Jolie and Cardinal...

January 07, 2015

On repeat today: Son Little

A lovely lady (hi, lovely lady!) sent me an Amazon gift card, so...

January 06, 2015

It’s silly season for Catholics who bash Francis on climate change

If we want a pro-life message to be part of the conversation on environmental policy,...

January 05, 2015

The Fishers’ Half-Baked Kid Chore System that More Or Less Works

New year! Great time to get your rotten, miserable kids to carry their weight a...

January 05, 2015

New radio show! Connecting the Dots with Mark Shea and me AND…

. . . Tom McDonald, Dale Ahlquist, Jason Stellman, and Steven Greydanus. Mark's new radio show, Connecting the...

January 02, 2015

Epiphany, you’re on your own.

"Keep that tree up until Epiphany!" they keep saying. "It's still Christmas, you know! Don't...

January 01, 2015

FLASH! Cardinal Mahony is actually horse meat

Simcha Fisher's greatest fan suggested rerunning this piece for Throwback Thursday. This post ran in...

January 01, 2015

Happy New Year! You’re Going to Die.

Anonymous painting courtesy of Wikimedia Commons I'm telling my daughter the brightest version of something...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

Top reasons to sit down in 2014

These are a few of my favorite posts! And this is a picture of Maria...

December 30, 2014

Happy Old Year!

image source Between FEMEN, climate change, and that ill-considered paintball showdown between Rocco Palmo and...

December 29, 2014

NH Medicaid May Cut Payments for Circumcision

photo courtesy of Wellcome Images The state medicaid program should no longer pay for...

December 29, 2014

Why I am not at all surprised that the president of Argentina adopted a Jewish son so as to head off the whole werewolf thing

photo source Ever read a story a couple of times from a couple of different...

December 25, 2014

Mother and Child: A Christmas Gallery of Original Art

Merry Christmas, everybody! I offered up Midnight Mass for all of you, especially for anyone...

December 24, 2014

Damien and I be chatting with Mark Shea on Radio Maria this evening!

Mark has the details: Fellow Patheosi and National Catholic Register blogger and all around Catholic...

December 23, 2014

Christmas music I can’t wait to hear!

Today I learned the word "macaronic," which refers to a style of work where all...

December 23, 2014

So he knocks on Raymond Chandler’s door . . .

After seventeen years, you think you have heard all the stories, but I heard...

December 22, 2014

Cheap and Easy Christmas Things that Even You Can Do!

I assume you're already doing all the religious stuff, and have already bought, made, figured...

December 19, 2014

Calling all artists! I’m looking for Christmas artwork.

I'd love to put together a gallery of Christmas art for the Register on Christmas...

December 18, 2014

That time you were so busy, you forgot you wrote that book

Well, one chapter of it, anyway. This is so dang stupid. Right before supper, FedEx...

December 18, 2014

Gift-Giving is so Catholic!

We don't want to convey to our kids that love can be bought on...

December 17, 2014

First Things likes The Sinner’s Guide to NFP!

Reviewer Christine Emba says in First Things: What especially recommends The Sinner’s Guide to a broader audience is...

December 16, 2014

Fed court of appeals: No, MA taxpayers don’t have to pay for murderer’s sex change operation

Breaking news from the Boston Globe: a federal appeals court has overturned a district court's 2012...

December 16, 2014

Clearing up a few things around here

Sometimes we all need some clarity {PIC} "That should clear up a few things...

December 16, 2014

Loving the adult Jesus

Christmas is the infancy of the Faith, and most people find it pretty easy to...

December 15, 2014

Zero Foolproof Gift Ideas for the Man You Claim to Love; or, Simply Having a Wonderful Chickentime

Is it my imagination, or is the Catholic internet just bristling with lists of gift ideas for men this year? Are...