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Ross Douthat's Must-Read UPDATED

Totally tied up with work obligations today but wanted to put Ross Douthat's must-read column...

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Good Cop/Bad Cop For Catholics! UPDATED

Boston College professor and theologian Tim Muldoon's column, "Culture at the Crossroads" strikes a daring...

December 10, 2010

"Are you a woman of God?" UPDATED

That's the question Sr. Lisa Doty got from a kid in trouble: “Yes, I am,”...

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November 24, 2010

Did Benedict Stir the Water on Purpose?

Did Pope Benedict know he was sparking a debate with his responses in Light of...

November 23, 2010

Pope, Condom, TSA & Crucifix – UPDATED

With a title like that, what else could I be talking about but my Tuesday...

November 21, 2010

Benedict, Condoms, Humanae Vitae – UPDATED

"O Lord, in your light we see light itself." --a 1st Antiphon of Lauds In...

November 20, 2010

Pope & Condoms – UPDATED & UPDATED & More

The press loves its "Rottweiler narrative" on Benedict, but he has confounded them on it,...

November 19, 2010

The Heroic Ordination at Dachau – UPDATED

Deacon Greg brings us a look at a secret ordination that took place at Dachau:...

November 15, 2010

"Blood and Forgiveness"

When Deacon Greg Kandra showed me his homily for yesterday, I wrote to him that...

November 13, 2010

Out of Iraq: the Gospel Message Writ Large – UPDATED

Our Lady of Salvation Church, Iraq In the gospels, Our Lord made it very clear...

November 12, 2010

Roman Collar as Yoke and Witness

There is a story--or a bit of blarney, I'm not sure which--about why Catholic priests...

November 01, 2010

All Saints Day & Modern Martyrs – UPDATE

Chapel & Tomb of St. Philip Neri, Chiesa Nuova, Rome Podcast of the Readings for...

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Halloween & All Saints Day – UPDATED

Girlfriend needs to take a day off; I need to pray, play, rest and regroup...

October 29, 2010

The Beating Heart of the Team

Philip Kamrass / Times Union Writer Fran Rossi Szypylczyn emailed a great story that is...

October 28, 2010

The "Safe Haven" of Grace

I like this piece by Tony Rossi, over at Patheos, about Nicholas Sparks, author of...

October 20, 2010

"We had Cancer & Christ in Common

"Friendship" by Picasso It's breast cancer awareness month, and Pat Gohn has permitted me to...

October 14, 2010

Roundup for Noontime Reading

Busyness has made me remiss in letting you folks know about Patheos' Religion and Faith...

October 13, 2010

Chilean Miners Give Unfiltered Witness – UPDATED

Esteban Rojas, the 18th miner rescued Over at Deacon Greg's place: We sit here in...

October 11, 2010

In the Day of the Bully

Over the weekend, I mentioned to someone that I hate the tv ad for the...

October 05, 2010

Reasoned Loyalty; the Tuesday Column

My Tuesday Column is up, wherein I wonder about whether an adult and fully-formed faith...

September 2010

September 30, 2010

The Glory of God on Your Face -UPDATED

Nothing thrills a writer more than to read something and tsk wistfully about it, "boy,...

September 21, 2010

Benedict's UK Triumph Ignored in US

Shamelessly cribbed from Lucianne.com Deacon Greg, who rarely has time to really sit down and...

August 2010

August 25, 2010

Everyday Apocalypse

No, that header is not about my mood just now (bad) or about what feels...

August 10, 2010

This gives me hope – UPDATED

I can't say why, exactly, but all of this gives me hope. Clearly, thirty years...

August 10, 2010

Love Has Limits, Now?

In E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel, a novel loosely based on trial and...

August 09, 2010

Desecration in Scranton

This is not good: It is believed that sometime overnight on Aug. 3 or early...

August 09, 2010

The Elite Magic Circle – UPDATED

Check out Michael Liccione's latest on the falling of the Catholic Church from the magic...

August 04, 2010

Hitchens; Hairless, Hale & Hearty – UPDATED

Hitchens, July 2010 / Photo by John Huba Chirstopher Hitchens, in the midsts of a...

July 2010

July 27, 2010

Look What I Just Found! -UPDATED

Needing to brush up on some things before submitting to an interview tomorrow, I came...

July 07, 2010

The Radical Religion of Abortion

Source: Newsweek We hear a lot, particularly from the "new" atheists and their supporters, about...