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March 28, 2025

What We Do to Immigrants Matters, for Everyone

I want to remind my readers that our souls will be judged on how we...

February 2023

February 22, 2023

For You Are Dust

Remember you are dust, and unto dust you shall return. Dust is not a...

April 2022

April 02, 2022

My Statement on Lauren Handy

I've been trying to think what to say for days. It's a surreal feeling...

February 2022

February 28, 2022

A Word on Just War

Just a momentary time-out to explain something that ought to be obvious. I am...

December 2021

December 27, 2021

The Mystery of Holy Family Sunday

It always feels a bit awkward when Christmas falls on a Saturday, because all...

August 2021

August 08, 2021

Of Delta, Vaccine Conspiracy Theories, Francis and the Leper

The Friendship Room is putting the plexiglass back on their porch. I don't think the...

July 2021

July 24, 2021

Yet Another Take on The Pillar and Monsignor Burrill

The last thing you need is another take on the resignation of Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill...

July 09, 2021

On The Feast of the Intact

We got through another first week and a half of July. It's never easy, if...

July 08, 2021

If Your Portal Offends You

A couple of weeks ago, a young woman I know on Twitter posted a...

July 06, 2021

Purity, Victim-Blaming and Martyrs: What If We Told the Truth?

A note to my readers who are victims of abuse: I'm going to talk...

July 05, 2021

For Those Who Hurt On This Miserable Feast

It's that time of year again. It's time for the feast day of that saint,...

June 2021

June 27, 2021

To Touch the Unclean

When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd...

June 16, 2021

The Prettiest House on the Block

The menacing neighbor's house is starting to look very nice. It's slate blue with...

June 10, 2021

A Picture of the Sun

She was in her front yard, with a camera on a tripod, trying to...

May 2021

May 04, 2021

An Appalachian Angelus

Rosie came with me to run errands. We run errands in a car now....

April 2021

April 25, 2021

The First Vocation is to Exist

I don't know exactly how the kerfuffle started on Catholic Twitter. I think someone had...

April 22, 2021

No Left Turns and Never Forget

I've had a car for a month now. The Neighborhood Trolley is my first...

April 20, 2021

The Chauvin Verdict is Just, but it Isn’t Justice

I heard the verdict on the radio this afternoon. Derek Chauvin, the police officer who...

April 20, 2021

America is Guilty as Sin

There's been so much horror going on in my hometown lately that I haven't had time...

April 02, 2021

Good Friday and the Scandal of Christ the Victim

Yesterday I re-posted my piece on Christ as a victim of sexual abuse, drawing on...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

The Name I Call Myself

The first week as a car owner didn't start out very well. I was...

March 25, 2021

On Birds and Bees, Gila Monsters and Chastity

I gave Rosie the talk about the birds and the bees. This happened a bit...

February 2021

February 28, 2021

A Response to the USCCB’s Dangerous Twitter Thread

I want to say a few words about The Equality Act, and about...

February 22, 2021

The Preppers, the Can Opener, and the Plight of the Homeless

I've just discovered a whole catalog of things that will be great for helping the...

February 20, 2021

The Mystery of Saint Francis and the Pixie Cut

I cut my hair off for Lent this year. Well, that's not exactly the sequence...

February 17, 2021

Lent, Penance and Spiritual Abuse: What Are We To Do?

It's Lent. If you're Christian, that's a time for reflection and turning away from...

February 15, 2021

Christ is the Lord of the Clean and the Unclean

A reading from the book of Leviticus: The LORD said to Moses and...

January 2021

January 31, 2021

Where You Are, There He Is

I have to get a glucose tolerance test tomorrow, which is not a punishment....

January 20, 2021

As We Wake From A Nightmare On Inauguration Day

I feel a little dizzy. All day long I've felt like I was floating...

January 15, 2021

Dustin Higgs’s Execution and the Cycle of American Violence

I regret to tell you that we have to do this one more time....