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January 2015

January 28, 2015

Amid Storms and Wars, the Daily Outrage that is Francis

He is the most exhausting pope of my lifetime. Deacon Greg sent this cute video...

November 2014

November 26, 2014

“Sisterhood” May be Reality-TV for Reality-TV Haters

Maybe. When it was announced that Lifetime network would be airing a "reality" series chronicling...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Putting Away the Labels to Hear/See Each Other

Under it's new editor, Matt Malone, S.J., America Magazine is doing a very good thing:...

June 07, 2013

NSA Inevitability and what Ted Kennedy Knew! – UPDATE

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

The Quiet Menace: Fixating on Francis, Missing the Point – UPDATED

Having just gone to confession after mass this morning, it was not my intention to...

August 2012

August 15, 2012

Man Walks in with Chick-fil-A Swag and a Gun…UPDATE

It almost sounds like a joke, right? "Stop me if you've heard this one, before:...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

A Divided Church and a Movement with Momentum

(Image courtesy of shutterstock.com) Over at Egregious Twaddle, Joanne McPort asks (and answers) whether the...

July 24, 2012

Fr. Dwight on Aurora and Demonic Possession

Earlier today, while linking to a sermon full of truth and victory, I also linked...

July 21, 2012

What the CO shooting “says about us”

Jack Shafer with a thoughtful piece: . . . attempts at pattern recognition are as...

July 20, 2012

Aurora Slaughter and the Enthralled Tribes of America

Via How overly-enthralled we are becoming to our ideological tribes? Enough, perhaps, to wonder if...

July 12, 2012

Fearless Pat Gohn: “Do You Want to Pray About It?”

About a year ago, Pat Gohn and I were chatting via skype about work-related issues,...

June 2012

June 15, 2012

If God wants it, nothing can stop it

So, our friends the Dominican Nuns of Summit, NJ have welcomed a new postulant to...

April 2012

April 02, 2012

Trayvon and the MSM: “Who will guard the guardians?” UPDATED

It's an ironic question, given George Zimmerman's own ideas about guardianship, but it's one that...

March 2012

March 24, 2012

Trayvon and Zimmerman: A “good faith” breakdown?

In the comboxes, someone wondered earlier today why I had not written anything about the...

March 20, 2012

Is Sentimentalism the Last Step Before Violence?

InDisorientation: How to Go to College Without Losing Your Mind (which I highly recommend), I...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

Obamacare’s Gift to the Catholics – FINAL

Photo by Bob Mullen/The Catholic Photographer/NY Daily News In my First Things column, today, I...

January 14, 2012

God is Not Done with You

Deacon Greg's homily for this weekend is especially good, and powerfully useful, I think: In...

January 10, 2012

Gibbs, Jarrett and Mrs. Obama: The Tussle

So, former WH press secretary Robert Gibbs apparently tussled with Obama's seeming mother-substitute Valerie Jarrett,...

December 2011

December 28, 2011

The Vanishing: Can Faith Fuel the Future?

Last year I mused over at First Things about Vienna, and how it had seemed,...

December 20, 2011

The Primacy and Constancy of Christ-as-Truth – UPDATE

Reading the always-terrific John Allen the other day, I found myself miffed at the notion...

December 19, 2011

Kim Jong Il is Dead; New Tyrants Come

While you were sleeping our already-roiling world took another hit to its tenuous stability: North...

December 12, 2011

“But you’re even nice to the dishwasher…”

A Bronx mugger steps out of an idea, into wonder: Julio Diaz has a daily...

December 11, 2011

The Towers in Korea: What Humanity? – UPDATED

I saw this yesterday and wondered if it was a hoax: The designers of the...

December 10, 2011

Muppets Mayhem is Misdirection

Honestly, I haven't been paying much attention. I mean, I love the Muppets but once...

November 2011

November 14, 2011

Penn State, Paradigms and Poor Me

With all there is to read on the Penn State/Sandusky story, here are two excellent...

November 12, 2011

A Collected Angel in Chicago

:::WARNING::: Explicit video; can be very upsetting to watch. You're warned. Doubtless many of you...

November 11, 2011

Internet Addiction, Spam and Comboxes

My spam filter currently has 900 spams, and counting, and the situation can't be rectified...

November 10, 2011

Barone, the Puppeteer and the Credentials FlimFlam

I agree with Michael Barone, in his defense of the "pampered Puppeteer": Conservative bloggers and...

September 2011

September 15, 2011

Branding 3 year-olds as Haters, for Life

I'd guess this is the absurd and disspiriting levels to which unchecked political-correctness and a...

September 06, 2011

Dear POTUS: If we can't believe you on civility…

Dear Mr. President; I understand you have a huge speech about job-creation coming up this...