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August 2018

August 08, 2018

A Pro-Life Action we Can All Take

I would like all of my readers to join me in taking a stand for...

August 02, 2018

Why Change the Catechism on the Death Penalty?

It has likely come to your attention that the Holy Father has made a change...

July 2018

July 13, 2018

Cancer and Sunflowers

The bus was ten minutes late. I knew what that meant. It meant that...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

Ten Times Eternity: A Response to the Texas School Shooting

I woke up to find there'd been another school shooting. I didn't know what to...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

A Clarification of my Recent Remarks, and Why I “Censor” Ethnonationalists

Lately, some very interesting folks have reached out to me with concerns. I would like...

April 14, 2018

The Wages of War

As I write this, on a Friday night during prime time while our president is...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Seven Last Words: Father, Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit

With His last breath, He cries out, "Father, into your hands I commend my...

March 16, 2018

Do We Really Want The Death Penalty For Drug Dealers?

You've likely heard by now that the president wants to have drug dealers executed. And...

March 12, 2018

No Regrets

Michael once informed me that if the Pezzulos were a House on Game...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

Seven Last Words: Behold Your Son, Behold Your Mother

When Jesus saw His mother standing there, He said "Woman, behold thy son." He said...

February 25, 2018

Do you See A Hero or a Suicide Attempt?

I saw a video today, of an attempted suicide. That isn't what I was...

February 16, 2018

No Surprises, Only Grief, at the Parkland Massacre

It is now just after midnight, Eastern Daylight Time, on February Sixteenth. That means that,...

February 12, 2018

Seven Last Words: Father, Forgive Them

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." What could that possibly mean?...

February 04, 2018

Ram Trucks’ Shameful Attempt to Appropriate Martin Luther King

I just heard the voice of the famous anti-capitalist Martin Luther King, Jr, preaching on...

January 2018

January 29, 2018

About that Mike Pence Holocaust Tweet

Moments after my usual winter flare-up began to subside, I made the mistake of leaving my...

December 2017

December 18, 2017

The Seventh Sorrow of Mary: Christ is Laid in the Tomb

Darkness covered the land, when Christ gave up the Ghost. Darkness was coming...

December 18, 2017

The Sixth Sorrow Of Mary: The Lamentation

A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children...

November 2017

November 05, 2017

There has Been Another Shooting

There has been another shooting. I could have opened a blog post with that sentence...

October 2017

October 16, 2017

A Plummeting Ghost

I once read that, if you ever find yourself falling to your death, you should say "My...

September 2017

September 19, 2017

The Table and the Cross

Lately, anything to do with Catholics has felt like dysfunctional family dinners.

September 07, 2017

Murder Most Dubious

I have seen several people publicly declare that if you believe the Pope is complicit...

August 2017

August 09, 2017

Confessions at Nagasaki

They were hearing confessions after Mass in Urakami Tenshudo, the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception....

August 08, 2017

Fire and Fury, Says the Bellicose Brat

Today, the darling of the pro-life movement, TV's Donald J. Trump, just brought us...

August 07, 2017

Defense is not Delightful

I got into a conversation with a libertarian, as one does, on Facebook in the...

July 2017

July 23, 2017

The Derelict

I was going for my walk after dark, after the heat of the day had broken....

June 2017

June 21, 2017

They Are Sending Our Fellow Christians to Die

They are going to die. Just recently, about 200 Chaldean Christians-- Catholics like me and...

June 11, 2017

Portrait of a Healer

On the wall of my bachelor uncle's bedroom, in my paternal grandparents' house, there were two...

April 2017

April 14, 2017

Saint Dismas

Somewhere, they are lifting up the evening sacrifice. Scarlet stains the stone before the Holy...

April 14, 2017

The Fourteenth Station: Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb

We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You, because by Your holy cross You...

April 05, 2017

The Eleventh Station: Jesus is Nailed to the Cross

We Adore You, O Christ, and we bless You, because by Your holy cross...