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August 2018

August 25, 2018

Gentleness Has No Gender

After Rose was born, we were a mess. My abusive disaster birth left me...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

Don’t Run Over the Turkey

I learned to drive. Well, almost. I can nearly drive. A friend gave me...

June 2018

June 11, 2018

What Awaits the Faithful?

In the past few days, I've seen a lot of chuckling based on Bill Donohue's...

May 2018

May 03, 2018

Family Spaces

I try not to pay attention to Matt Walsh. If we all ignore him there's...

April 2018

April 14, 2018

Yes, Mr. Arroyo, Youths Can Know God

Yes, I've seen the clip. As many of you already know, Raymond Arroyo, a...

April 14, 2018

Cleaning the Sticky Tack Corner

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

April 01, 2018

Laugh Like a Magdalene

Early in the morning on the first day of the week, the women came...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Mary Was A Saint

From the Holy Gospel for Monday of Holy Week: Six days before Passover Jesus came...

March 25, 2018

Yes, We Do Know Better Than The Founding Fathers

The other day, on the facebook page, I got jumped on by a commentator who...

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...

December 2017

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...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

The Second Joy of Mary: The Visitation

(Note: most Seven Joys devotions skip over the Visitation and count the Nativity of Christ...

November 19, 2017

The First Sorrow of Mary: The Prophecy of Simeon

She must have been exhausted. Eight days after giving birth unexpectedly, in a stable,...

November 02, 2017

All Saints and All Souls

It wasn't All Saints' Day yesterday-- not for me, in the tradition I follow now....

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...

October 10, 2017

A Reader Asks: Is the Eucharist Cannibalism?

A friend had a question: what do I say to a person, who is soon to...

October 04, 2017

The Mirror and the Font

I took Rose on an expedition to the thrift shop, to look for fifty cent...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

Before you Compare Yourself to Saint Catherine of Siena…

So, you're Catholic and you wanna correct the Pope? And you wanna clap back...

September 07, 2017

Steve Bannon and Saint Lawrence Agree on 1 Thing

Steve Bannon, who claims to be a Catholic, declared himself at odds with the Church's...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Some Say Peter

There are saints who seem like strangers to me, and Peter and Paul go into...

June 25, 2017

All of Us Relics

I get along better with relics than with live people.

May 2017

May 29, 2017

The Violent Bear It Away: A Response To Dave Daubenmire’s Violent Idolatry

It's always strange to see someone I knew from my "old life" online. Years and years...

May 12, 2017

Courage and the Crocodile Pit

Is anyone else nervous lately? I've been a little nervous lately. Alternately angry and nervous,...

May 09, 2017

What Would Benedict Do?

The combox is interesting lately. Oh, it's always interesting. All three of the usual comment...

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 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 21, 2017

Tuesday Morning Glory Story

I hadn't had breakfast yet. I have acute gastritis and IBS; medication keeps much of...

February 2017

February 25, 2017

The “Benedict Option” Puzzles a Benedictine

I am a Benedictine monk, and I’ve been perplexed ever since I first heard...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

A Modest Proposal For Dan Miller’s Facebook Page

Some of you may have heard that Dan Miller, the director of an outfit calling itself...

December 27, 2016

The Martyrdom Of St. Stephen

Yesterday, the Western Church celebrated the martyrdom of Saint Stephen. Today, it's our turn in...