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May 2018

May 21, 2018

To Share is Human, to Share is Divine

The other day, a wonderful reader left me a tip in the blog's tip jar,...

May 13, 2018

Say there is a Lady

Let's say there is a Lady full of Grace. Let's say there is a...

May 10, 2018

Lilacs in Labelle

LaBelle smells like unwashed dogs. The neighbors in the apartment building have at least...

April 2018

April 14, 2018

Cleaning the Sticky Tack Corner

It was time to organize the Beautiful Corner. I call it the "Beautiful Corner" because...

April 07, 2018

As a Deer Longs

We still don't have a way to get to the church that's become home....

March 2018

March 02, 2018

The Problem of the Invisible Illness

(Author's note: This is a piece I wrote for Rare Disease Day, which...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

One Candle

I caught the last bus home from Wal Mart. It was quite dark, it was...

February 10, 2018

As The Snow

Readers of my blog sometimes tell me I'm brave, but I'm actually not. I'm...

January 2018

January 25, 2018

What is the real “Destructive Culture?”

I keep thinking about that nonsense paragraph from Dreher that I tore apart yesterday. One...

December 2017

December 26, 2017

Most Worshipful

My daughter, Rosie, is well aware by now that there are different rites in...

December 24, 2017

Revelation Times

I missed the elusive Saturday bus and had to walk to the store. The...

December 22, 2017

The Seventh Joy of Mary: The Assumption and Crowning

Who is she that comes forth as the daybreak? Who is this queen, most...

December 18, 2017

In Dialogue With Father Dwight Longnecker on the Vatican Crèche

I recently read an article by my former fellow Patheosi, Father Dwight Longnecker, where...

December 10, 2017

Comfort and Joy in Downtown Steubenville

I was recently informed by a disgruntled reader that I "literally threw the entire...

December 02, 2017

Welcome to Advent!

Hello, Latin Catholics! Come on in, pull up a chair, help yourself to something...

November 2017

November 25, 2017

The Second Sorrow of Mary: The Flight into Egypt

Imagine her terror. Things were bad enough before. She came to Bethlehem in the...

October 2017

October 11, 2017

We Remain Human

My friend Anna is beautiful. She's always posting selfies of her new makeup experiments-- makeup is...

September 2017

September 14, 2017

Portrait of a Man

The powerful start wars. The helpless go to war, lose limbs, and come back needing...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

African Christians Are Not Inferior Christians

There isn't anything non-Christian about being African.

August 24, 2017

Vocation of the Half-Baked Catholic

I shouldn't have gone to church on Sunday. No, really, I shouldn't. I was...

August 09, 2017

Confessions at Nagasaki

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

June 2017

June 25, 2017

All of Us Relics

I get along better with relics than with live people.

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Free Among the Dead

That's all anybody can ever do: help each other suffer less, and pretend to be...

May 17, 2017

In the Cool of the Day

I took my daughter to play on the grassy hill by the abandoned school...

April 2017

April 19, 2017

The Scandal Of Resurrection Matins

It may have come to your attention that the Protestant blogger Jeff Maples visited Resurrection...

April 15, 2017

The God of Broken People

My friend Theresa posted a question on Facebook yesterday. "Can anyone remember which saint had...

April 13, 2017

The Thirteenth Station: Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross

We adore You, O Christ, and we bless 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...

April 01, 2017

Introducing the Mary of Egypt Option

Somehow, all of my friends are reading Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option. I'm not. I was...

March 2017

March 16, 2017

Every Face An Icon

The other day, I read a short piece entitled "3 Things You Didn't Know About...