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October 2014

October 02, 2014

The Burke and Kasper Videos: Epic Fail All Around – UPDATED

If you're not already fully repelled by everything in our world being politicized, this might...

September 2014

September 19, 2014

Why Francis and Benedict are Right: Proselytizing is Folly

Do you know why, as Pope Francis rightly noted (as Benedict did, before him), proselytizing...

September 17, 2014

Burke’s “Exile” to Malta**: What if Everyone is Wrong? UPDATED

The rumors appear to be true, and it looks like Pope Francis is "demoting" Cardinal...

September 15, 2014

The Great Unraveling: A Necessary Look at Reality

This morning, the New York Times published an exquisitely-written dose of reality via Roger Cohen....

September 03, 2014

Consigning Joni Mitchell to the Prayers of Dorothy Day

Very likely due to being ill for nearly four months, I'm in a bit of...

September 02, 2014

Do The Rapes of Rotherham Tell a Tale of Conquest? UPDATED

For days I avoided the story, as I know many others have. Coming on the...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

Unhappy Nation America: Not a Family, Not a People

America is not happy. However it might look on paper, in reality we are not...

August 15, 2014

Can Finding Peace and Joy in Life Really Be This Simple?

Not easy, mind you, but simple? As in not overburdened with worldly reason and trendy...

August 12, 2014

Editorial: “The World Can’t Afford US Gov’t This Bad for So Long!”

Wow, first Dana Milbank, then Richard Cohen, then New York Magazine and now this*: After...

August 09, 2014

The West Lacks One Essential Tool to Defeat ISIS

In an article covering President Obama’s reluctant decision to begin limited airstrikes against the so-called...

August 07, 2014

Ann Coulter’s Strange God Renders Her Blind

Others tell me it is "schtick" meant to "make us think" but if that's what...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Sometimes you just have to say, “okay, fly away…”

So, Max Lindenman, one of our earliest bloggers here at the Catholic channel, has folded...

July 17, 2014

The Carmelite Nuns of Compiègne Wore Priestly Collars

As with the Martyrdom of St. Charles Lwanga and his companions we today remember a...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Before October’s Synod on the Family, Read this Book!

When the Patheos Book Club told me they were going to be featuring the paperback...

June 17, 2014

Mrs. Obama is ProChoice, Except for Schools, Lunches — UPDATED

Look, I am not a big detractor of Michelle Obama. I mostly like her fashion...

June 11, 2014

“The Eye of a Samurai Knows No Tear”

The cruelest, most violent Samurai in Japan decides he wants to become enlightened. He bursts...

May 2014

May 22, 2014

Perhaps Oculus Rift Will Restore Us to Ourselves

Over at Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds links to a letter from the editor that may be...

May 19, 2014

Douglas-to-Dust: Feeling Helpless About the Homeless

New York City is such a microcosm of every aspect of the human experience --...

May 16, 2014

Heading to Holy Land: May I Take Your Intentions WIth Me?

Early next week I will be heading to the Holy Land as part of a...

May 15, 2014

Adoration and Intercession: One Way to Pray

So after the great showing in Cambridge, MA, where "Catholics Answered Black Mass with Prayers...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

Gethsemane at Penn Station

It is Holy Thursday, and that is a good thing. Even amid the controversial back-and-forths...

April 17, 2014

What hastens our dying and our rising

Though I am almost fanatical about keeping my books in good order, I found this...

April 13, 2014

A Palm Sunday of Stark Decision

". . .the revelation is really quite simple- the Lord Jesus, God and King, will...

April 10, 2014

Brendan Eich, Refusenik to an Idea cum Idol *UPDATED

Some great stuff over at OSV this week, particularly this and this, but I wanted...

April 10, 2014

Jesuits and Women: Helen Alvaré to America!

Hey, I was just joking when, on April 1, I said the Jesuits were about...

April 03, 2014

Noah and The Lent of Christian Screaming, 2014

How is your Lent going? Are you feeling like you're making some spiritual progress, with...

March 2014

March 25, 2014

“Rem acu tetigisti, Sir.” Freaking Lent. – UPDATED

Nothing is more annoying than being correctly judged, even in a small way. A broad...

March 19, 2014

One of those awful stories that clutches at the heart…

Around here we love Joseph Susanka and his Summa This, Summa That blog, because in...

March 09, 2014

“Christ was there! And I missed him!”

Just because I prefer, on Sundays, to attend the Mass of the Very Old Men...

March 04, 2014

Lenten Resources: Apps, Links, Music and More – UPDATED

The sun is beginning to set. We're just a few hours away from quietening down...