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December 2012

December 20, 2012

What the hell is WRONG with these people? – UPDATE

If you ever doubted that there is a battle going on all around us --...

December 04, 2012

Does Church Suppress God’s Will? That’s Wicked, Right?

Like Mark Shea, I too thought the National Catholic Reporter had endorsed female ordination years...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

Building on what you’ve built: A GREAT Story

My Patheos colleague Tim Dalrymple has a story and video that really should make everyone...

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...

October 2010

October 22, 2010

Fr. Barron on Eucharistic Adoration

It takes a genuine bigot to suggest that Eucharistic Adoration is a practice reserved to...

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 08, 2010

Unemployment Numbers & a Timely Meditation

The unemployment numbers are looking pretty dismal and bleak, aren't they? A while back, I...

September 2010

September 30, 2010

What Do You Really Believe?

It's a great question to stop people of faith in their tracks and get them...

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 27, 2010

Anglican Ordinariate Proceeds Apace

Heraldry of Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Pope Benedict XVI, respectively On the...

September 23, 2010

Speaking of "Ameridolatry"…

It's a discussion I think is really valuable, for all Christians. If we forget that...

September 23, 2010

"They don't make 'em like that anymore…" UPDATED

Settling in for Evening Prayer at Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome Visiting Rome's splendid, often...

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

The Force of Her Focus – UPDATED

Marks '10/Kris Snibble (Photosource) Readers may remember a post from the spring, featuring Mary Anne...

August 17, 2010

Hating All Our Bright Tomorrows – UPDATED

State Opera House, Vienna My latest weekly column is up on the homepage. Today, we...

August 11, 2010

Feast of St. Clare – UPDATED

Chiara Offreduccio (July 16, 1194 – August 11, 1253) When you have loved Jesus, You...

August 10, 2010

Love Has Limits, Now?

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

August 04, 2010

"Gender no longer…essential (to) marriage"

In an utterly unsurprising ruling, and one that is inarguable if one is peering through...

August 02, 2010

Rosary for Job-Seekers – UPDATED

UPDATE: I have written an expanded version of these rosary meditations for OSV; you can...

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 28, 2010

The Clampdown; Shirley Sherrod & Ken Howell – UPDATED

Here we have the presentment of two job losses: Shirley Sherrod gives a speech; within...

July 13, 2010

The Patina of Prayer – UPDATED

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

July 11, 2010

RFK, MLK, Oakland, Race & Us

RKF, MLK Landmark for Peace Memorial A few days ago I linked to a piece...

July 07, 2010

The Radical Religion of Abortion

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

June 2010

June 29, 2010

Early Onset Alzheimer's & One Spousal Choice

Have been meaning to embed this all day, a video from CBS Sunday Morning, picked...

June 27, 2010

The Long Road to Jerusalem

When the days for Jesus’ being taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey...

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 14, 2010

Hyundai Goes too Far?

It begins with the Agnus Dei - what they are chanting here is "Lamb of...

June 03, 2010

Replay will Ruin Baseball – UPDATED

Humility & Grace turn a heavy moment to light. Sancya/AP Last night, Umpire James Joyce...

May 2010

May 28, 2010

God is not sophisticated enough

There is a quote from Archbishop Oscar Romero that both traditional and progressive Catholics love...