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July 2020

July 06, 2020

Purity, Rape and the Feast Of Maria Goretti (again)

I woke up to find that it was the feast of Saint Maria Goretti...

June 2020

June 25, 2020

My Response to Abby Johnson’s Shocking Racist Manifesto

I apologize ahead of time for the length of this post; as you'll see, a...

June 21, 2020

In Despair, In Resurrection, In Gardens

This week has been hard. On Thursday night, Rosie forgot to lock up her...

June 07, 2020

The Price of Ordinary

Columbus, Ohio, is an ordinary place. I'm not using "ordinary" as a pejorative there; I'm...

June 06, 2020

If You Cannot See Christ in This Dead Child…

Today I am angry. I am angry and tired of seeing my fellow white Christians...

June 05, 2020

George Floyd and the American Apocalypse

A friend on social media reminded me that the word "apocalypse" is Greek for "revelation."...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

If You’re Angry About the Looting of a Target Store

If you are angry about the looting of a Target store, I'm not going to...

May 27, 2020

Two Viral Videos Starkly Demonstrate America’s Racism

I woke up on Monday to video footage of a white woman lying to the...

May 26, 2020

A Requiem for a Hundred Thousand

One hundred thousand people are dead. It happened just in the past hour-- we...

April 2020

April 20, 2020

What “Freedom Over Fear” Actually Means

Over the past week, we've had some embarrassing public demonstrations. In Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and...

April 17, 2020

Spy Wednesday

I came downtown last week on Spy Wednesday, looking a bit like a spy myself...

April 11, 2020

It Causes Me To Tremble

I woke up early, which isn't like me. Insomnia is another symptom I...

April 09, 2020

On the Darkest Holy Thursday

We've reached the end of Lent, the beginning of Triduum. Sunday will be Easter. The...

April 06, 2020

How Do You Get To Gethsemane?

No one said I couldn't go for a hike. There's a lot that's not allowed...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

The Homeless who have no Protection from COVID

This morning I opened Twitter to check in on my friends; I ended up watching...

March 27, 2020

To Light One Candle

It is better, they say, to light one candle, than curse the darkness. Better...

March 23, 2020

A Disastrous Sentimentalism Indeed: First Things’s R. R. Reno Jumps the Shark

This afternoon I came across an article by R. R. Reno, the supposedly pro-life editor...

March 21, 2020

This is the Way the World Ends, This is the Way it Begins

I am watching, helpless, as the world ends-- not for the first time. When I...

March 19, 2020

Last Day of Winter on the Ohio

Yesterday was the last day of winter. I'm told that March 20th is the earliest...

March 17, 2020

Sunday Evening in the Plague Time

It was a brilliant, warm Sunday evening, perfect weather for walking, but we did not...

March 14, 2020

A Word on Church and a Word on Hoarding

It's Saturday, when I would usually be running out the door to a vigil Mass,...

March 13, 2020

Plague Comes to the Ohio Valley

COVID-19 has come to Ohio. It's all over the country now. Last I heard...

March 11, 2020

Risk, Virtue and the COVID-19 Pandemic

I keep saying I hope that COVID-19 just goes away, and it keeps on not...

March 10, 2020

The Tower of Power Abuse Case Comes to a Close, but What Next?

As some of you might recall, I've been following the case of Pastor Everett...

March 02, 2020

What it Means When You Say “It’s Not a Big Deal if You’re Healthy”

When I was a teenager, I knew a family that was staunchly pro-life: they prayed...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Violence, Gaslighting and Flying Monkeys: How Abusers Manipulate their Communities

I want to say a few words about gaslighting, and about how abusive people manipulate...

January 22, 2020

Why the Legionaries of Christ Cannot be Reformed

No doubt many of you have read the shocking article in the Associated Press,...

January 20, 2020

A Winter Night at the Friendship Room

I noticed the Friendship Room asking for prayers for a guest who came in tonight,...

January 14, 2020

Benedict, Sarah, Francis, and the Case of the Exploding Pope

Catholic social media erupted that Cardinal Sarah & Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI were publishing a...

January 09, 2020

I Voted Democrat Because I Am Pro-Life

They told me I had to vote Republican, because Republicans were pro-life. For awhile,...