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May 2020

May 24, 2020

The Parable of the Maple on Ascension Day

I don't know where the maple tree was, originally. There must have been a...

May 23, 2020

The Jig Is Up: A Review of “AKA Jane Roe”

I promised earlier this week that I would watch the documentary, AKA Jane Roe, when...

May 01, 2020

Faith Is A Thing That Holds

It's the first day of May. The narcissus have bloomed, fallen over and died, as...

April 2020

April 22, 2020

Frank Pavone Throws Down The Gauntlet, And I Respond

I cannot stand writing about Frank Pavone. I don't even like to think about him....

April 17, 2020

Spy Wednesday

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

April 16, 2020

When You Cannot Find the Body of Christ

There's always a letdown in this Octave of Easter-- or, at least, there is...

April 02, 2020

This Is What Gives Me Hope

Our country is awash in chaos and suffering. There is horror every time I...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

Not Everyone Who Says To Me, Lord, Lord…

The homeless are still attempting to shelter-in-place on Skid Row. They cannot practice social...

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 01, 2020

At the Cherry Boutique

We were at the Wellsburg Apple Festival, on a warm fall day. I don't...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

Lent Begins in Winter

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There...

February 14, 2020

The Patron Saint of Love and Bees

Today is Saint Valentine's Day, and I suppose you want me to write about love--...

February 01, 2020

The Dreariest of Times

So far, my February has not been great. It's only been twelve hours, and...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

Over the Wine-Dark Ohio

It was snowing, but I couldn't see it. This has been the most disappointing of...

January 26, 2020

Imagine a Flock of Tongue-Cut Sparrows

At my grandparent's house in Maryland, there was a three-volume clothbound set of sparsely illustrated...

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...

December 2019

December 27, 2019

Christ the Refugee and Other Things that Shouldn’t be Controversial

On the second day of Christmas yesterday, it began as usual: the annual insistence...

December 22, 2019

To Believe That Light Will Come

The longest night has come to an end. Things will not be easy from...

December 15, 2019

Two More Remarks on Alana Chen’s Passing

I have one more quick thing to say about the death of Alana Chen....

December 14, 2019

The Things I Hope She Did Not Know

I tried to write an icon the other day. I used to do it all...

December 12, 2019

Miriam Went to Mexico

Miriam of Nazareth was not important. Oh, she was-- she was the most important person...

December 05, 2019

The Kingdom of God is the Kingdom of Addition

Yesterday, I delivered the last of the presents from the First Annual Parish Giving Tree...

December 03, 2019

Fulton Sheen and the Problem of Celebrity Clergy

I have no opinion about Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Well, that's not true. I...

November 2019

November 30, 2019

The Lion is Not Real: a Lesson About Faith

When I was a very little girl I used the word "real" to mean ordinary,...

November 11, 2019

About That New Idol in the Colosseum…

I regard reading LifeSite News the same way I regard changing diapers: I don't...

November 10, 2019

To Him, All Are Alive

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke: Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If someone's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. ...

November 07, 2019

Who are the Real “Nones?” A Reply to Bishop Barron

Sometimes, even though I ought to be used to it by now, I am overwhelmed...

November 06, 2019

Mrs. Laurent Goes to Purgatory: A Meditation for All Souls

From the third to the fifth grade, I attended a school called Our Lady...

November 04, 2019

The Color of Departed Souls

The leaves have peaked for the year, and the color is going away. Pretty...

October 2019

October 24, 2019

Who Killed Jesus? A Most Curious Mystery

The past couple of days, I have discovered a bit of a mystery: nobody knows...