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April 2011

April 08, 2011

What I Tell My Altar Servers

Boys, before we get down to particulars I want you to know why we have...

March 2011

March 30, 2011

Mantilla the Hon is Horrified

Guest blogger Mantilla Amontillado is the founder of Veritas Vestments. She holds a degree in...

March 30, 2011

Apologetical Points

So often when I'm out on a speaking engagement people will tell me about their...

March 28, 2011

Why I Wear My Biretta

An email from a worthy person in England reveals this website which rather whimsically promotes...

March 27, 2011

On the Atonement

I've got to the chapter in my new book The Romance of Religion about the death...

March 25, 2011

Of Airplanes and Angels

Sitting in Atlanta airport and waiting for a plane I am always amazed and disturbed...

March 24, 2011

Do Beautiful Churches Produce Vocations?

I know a young priest who was brought up as a Baptist. He went into...

March 23, 2011

Zero Tolerance

Some folks who are hopping mad about the latest allegations against beloved priests have blamed...

March 22, 2011

These Holy Hands

A priest friend of mine in England used to joke that his working class mother...

March 21, 2011

Priests and Pedestals

The accusations against Fr John Corapi have unleashed a firestorm of comments from his devoted...

March 15, 2011

Supernatural Normalcy

What does the devil hate? Supernatural normalcy. When considering conflict with Satan some people think...

March 15, 2011

The Procession

In this series on the liturgy I want to explain why we do things--not only...

March 08, 2011

Sight and Vision in Worship

What many people forget about the liturgy is that what we see is more powerful...

March 07, 2011

Reform of the Reform

Instead of grumbling about liturgical abuses I have been asked to do something about it....

March 06, 2011

Relevant and Relative

Whenever I meet another convert to the Catholic faith from Anglicanism. I listen as they...

March 04, 2011

Why Being Right is Wrong

There is a line in a poem by e.e.cummings which sticks with me: "Even on...

March 02, 2011

Being Good or Going to Mass?

Not long ago I had a conversation with a woman which is pretty typical. She's...

March 02, 2011

Highest Call

I'll be in Nashville on Saturday for the Highest Call Men's Conference. I'll be speaking...

February 2011

February 26, 2011

Morte D’Urban

A friend lent me Morte D'Urban by J.F.Powers. Powers was unknown to me before, and...

February 22, 2011

Is Democracy Better?

With the revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya the hope is expressed that the people...

February 18, 2011

Mantilla the Hon Shares

Casteller from Mike Randolph on Vimeo.Ok hon. Don't never say that Spanish people don't know...

February 17, 2011

Literature and Literalism

Tower of BabelWhat shall we make of Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood, the...

February 14, 2011

Don Quixote Catholicism

What is required for the New Evangelization of the West? We are in a situation...

February 14, 2011

Morality without Religion?

Can you be a moral person without religion? Yes and no. It all depends on...

February 11, 2011

Some Days Padre…

...has no time for blogging. Here was my day today:6:15 alarm tea up get ready...

February 10, 2011

Imagination and Entertainment

If imagination is the capability of making images, where is the imagination in our society...

February 08, 2011

Rooster Cogburn Catholicism

One of the weaknesses of our day is spoiled, sappy, soft, sweet, sentimentalist Catholicism.I'm all...

February 07, 2011

The Problems with Possession

She was sixteen years old. She knocked on my door early on a Saturday...

February 03, 2011

What I Keep Coming Back To

Mahler's Ruckert Lieder, the Cowper Madonna, Brideshead Revisited, Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, my sixteen year...

February 02, 2011

Bethel and Bethlehem

I am re-reading Patrick Harpur's book Daimonic Realities--a fascinating study of the other world from...

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