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December 2013

December 21, 2013

Racking Up My Balls So You Can Crack Them! UPDATED

Like billiard balls on the table, I am sort of scattered all over the internet...

December 10, 2013

John Allen’s Stark Reality of a Global War on Christians – UPDATED

Deacon Greg Kandra has linked to the words of an Orthodox Priest, Fr. Peter-Michael Preble,...

November 2013

November 24, 2013

Should Religion Just Shut Up on Policy Matters? – UPDATED

That's the question currently being bandied about over at Patheos' Public Square page, where a...

November 12, 2013

When Hating Oneself, the World, and God Seems Like Right Reason

There are times when -- all too innocently, because we have not been mindful of...

February 2013

February 04, 2013

Abuse cover-ups about more than a “clergy culture” – UPDATED AGAIN!

(Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com) Over on Facebook, our friend James Martin, SJ noted that the...

April 2012

April 11, 2012

Prayers for Kitty and Three Others…

Some of you may remember that about six months ago my son's fiance "Kitty" dealt...

February 2012

February 03, 2012

CAN AN AGNOSTIC BE DIVINELY INSPIRED? “Babette’s Feast” Is a Eucharistic Allegory From an Unlikely Author

You probably know at least a little about Danish baroness and plantation owner Karen von...

February 01, 2012

THE POETRY OF FAITH: Once Upon a Time, Belief Was Normative

Doesn’t it sometimes seem that you were meant to live in a different age? That...

April 2011

April 05, 2011

Bad Benedictine; "I love you, go home!"

As I anticipate coming into my tenth year as a Benedictine Oblate, I rejoice that...

January 2011

January 25, 2011

The Audacity of Wonder – UPDATED

Illustration Source) Over at First Things, my Tuesday Column is looking at our mania for...

December 2010

December 14, 2010

Good Cop/Bad Cop For Catholics! UPDATED

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

November 2010

November 20, 2010

Christ the King; Here comes Emmanuel!

"Who do you say that I Am?" Source Let's prepare ourselves for the end of...

November 15, 2010

"Blood and Forgiveness"

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

October 2010

October 12, 2010

Bullying, Tolerance & the Disconnect

(Source) Yesterday, I wrote a little about the rampant bullying that is driving too many...

September 2010

September 30, 2010

The Secret Place…

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets...

September 15, 2010

A Creche, B-16 & Your Opinion, Please

I tease you with a splendid picture (they get a little fuzzy with cropping/shrinking) from...

August 2010

August 01, 2010

Make a Joyful Noise Unto God!

It's Sunday Night. Relax. Yes, it's a half-hour of video, but it is a half...

July 2010

July 22, 2010

Echoing Love in Eternity

This morning I dreamed my dog was being sick in my bedroom--she sleeps by my...

July 21, 2010

Sherrod should write a book- UPDATED

The Pool of Bethesda, 1645, Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot Shirley Sherrod says she is not certain...

July 15, 2010

Hitchens and the Subversive Liberty of Prayer

Over at Hot Air, yesterday's quotes of the day were all about the oddly controversial...

July 13, 2010

The Patina of Prayer – UPDATED

Source City churches are sometimes quiet and peaceful solitudes, caves of silence where a man...

July 10, 2010

Needless Chasm between Faith & Science

Once again, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart does a good job interviewing a much more...

July 08, 2010

One More Hymn

In the update to the Top Ten List below, I mentioned that one hymn I...

July 07, 2010

Does this Scripture Verse Trouble You?

Dr. Mark D. Roberts recently wrote about Psalm 137:9, a verse which he said makes...

July 05, 2010

Ethiopia's Old Christianity

Exciting news from one of Christianity's earliest seats, and the UK Daily Mail: The world's...

June 2010

June 24, 2010

Mary Anne Marks, Harvard ’10 -UPDATED

This is really charming, and comes our way thanks to reader Jenny, whose son graduated...

June 21, 2010

Beautiful & Sad and all too true

Joseph Bottum tells a too true story: There are some real championship athletes on the...

June 17, 2010

Has Social-Justice been Co-opted?

Over at Patheos, Timothy Dalrymple offers Part I of what he is referring to as...

June 01, 2010

Pray for Nancy Pelosi

Just pray for her. Pelosi’s office did not respond to CNSNews.com’s follow-up questions regarding the...

May 2010

May 21, 2010

Dwelling in Possibilities of Life & Death – UPDATED

We have recently seen pro-life conservatives like Sarah Palin and Ed Morrissey admit that fear...