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June 2015

June 22, 2015

Isn’t it Shocking, How People Dress for Mass?

It's a subject we can't get enough of. Deacon Greg's piece on the issue, from...

June 17, 2015

Dear Bishop Tobin: Ranting Right Back Atcha!

"Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!" declares...

March 2015

March 11, 2015

Bad Pastors Cheat the Faithful of Sacraments and Wonder

Given the burlap banners, the lack of kneelers (because heaven forbid we kneel before Christ...

May 2013

May 15, 2013

Why do YOU skip Mass? UPDATED

Lisa Hendey posts on an interesting study on why Catholics skip mass. I've written over...

March 2012

March 06, 2012

When Mass Rubs the Nerves Raw

My First Things piece this week confesses that I sometimes seek out a music-less mass...

January 2012

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...

December 2011

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...

November 2011

November 28, 2011

Reactions Found in Translation – UPDATED

So, the new English translation of the mass was introduced yesterday for, as the saying...

October 2011

October 04, 2011

St Francis of Assisi and Authenticity – UPDATED

He's one of the biggies, so he gets a lot of coverage on his feastday....

September 2011

September 18, 2011

Pondering Today's Mass Readings

"The Workers in the Vineyard" by Kazakhstan Artist Nelly Bube The Gospel reading is one...

September 08, 2011

Deacon Greg and the Hooters Shirt – UPDATED

A few weeks ago, Deacon Greg Kandra wrote a column for Patheos, entitled No Flip-Flops...

September 07, 2011

UK Launches New English Translation

Via Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church and the BBC, we can listen to...

August 2011

August 18, 2011

Don't Fear the Translation

Via Msgr. Charles Pope -- very well done. Cute kid, too!

July 2011

July 07, 2011

The Applause at Mass has to Stop

Katrina Fernandez has one of those posts up that makes you want to cheer and...

June 2011

June 07, 2011

Dowd's Yips Derail Even Her Praise – UPDATED

Seems yesterday was my day for writing about female journalists. Last night I was late...

June 06, 2011

Accept Almighty Father – FOUND!

A couple days ago I awoke with my memory ringing back a hymn from my...

March 2011

March 14, 2011

New Mass Translation; Discerning Success – UPDATED

Pondering the (in my humble opinion unduly controversial) new English translations for the Holy Mass,...

February 2011

February 22, 2011

Holy Eucharist, Humility and Flannery O

My column at First Things this week looks at the story of Father Augustin Escobar,...

February 02, 2011

Feast of the Presentation -UPDATED

And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him; and Simeon...

January 2011

January 20, 2011

New "Gloria" for New Roman Missal

Having long begged my musician sons to please try to compose a singable, non-bombast-filled-nor-sickly-sweet-nor-plodding "Gloria"...

September 2009

September 10, 2009

Your thoughts on headcoverings? UPDATED

Taking a break from the writing, (which is not going well, because it's the first...