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October 01, 2025

Immigrants are Your Neighbor. They are in Danger

I don't even know how to write about all the political news lately. I...

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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...

December 2020

December 04, 2020

For God So Loved the Formless Waste

Rosie and I went downtown, to bring a space heater to the Friendship Room, and...

October 2020

October 26, 2020

Zinnias in the Plague Time

Rosie and I went for a walk. Michael was out walking too, but he was...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

During a Dangerous Year

Rosie is completely over her virus now. She's out of danger-- nothing left but...

September 2019

September 18, 2019

If We Go To War Again

Today, I want everyone to do something for me. We just recently had the anniversary...

May 2019

May 09, 2019

Ohio Bill Could Kill Women With Ectopic Pregnancies

You have surely heard by now that Georgia passed an extremely strict "heartbeat bill,"...

May 03, 2019

The Diocese of Buffalo Whistle-Blowers Are Being Targeted

I am surprised that I had to write about the Diocese of Buffalo again so...

April 2019

April 23, 2019

About that Pro-Lifer who Stranded a Woman on a Highway

Today I read a rather disturbing article about a woman who had an abortion. The...

February 2019

February 18, 2019

How Ought We Respond to the Times Article on Gay Priests?

I'm going to have the comments off today, because I'm going to talk about a...

September 2018

September 24, 2018

The Child in Their Midst

Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but...

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...

November 20, 2017

Donna Provencher’s Public Message to the Diocese of Lafayette

Donna Provencher, one of the women who reported being used sexually and spiritually abused by Jonathan...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” is Not Just A Refugee Ban, And It’s Not For Safety

Yesterday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the same day Vice-President Pence told the March for Life...

August 2016

August 15, 2016

And Now, a Serious Meditation on the Dormition…

(Image via Wikimedia Commons) ...from my Orthodox friend over at Morphodoxing. Whatever your disagreements with...