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December 2015

December 02, 2015

Ten Years is a Long Run…

... Ten years ago I sat down and wrote my first blog post. My intended...

August 2015

August 16, 2015

“When I look back over my life Catholicism was always there”…

... I've taken on a side project called The Catholic Five. It's basically five Catholics...

October 2014

October 19, 2014

Insignificant Members of the Church…

... You know what the absolute best thing in the whole world is about having...

October 14, 2014

I’ve Got The Funk…

... I've been in a hell of a funk lately. Not that kind of funk....

September 2014

September 14, 2014

#whyIstayed Why Women Stay In Domestically Violent Relationships…

... After a disturbing video of Ray Rice hitting his then-fiancée, Janay Palmer, surfaced online,...

September 02, 2014

Meet The Most Amazing Women (To Me) That Ever Lived…

... Meet my granma, Katherine. The lady I was named after. To me she was...

August 2014

August 02, 2014

Mine. It’s All Mine. My Bed. Mine…

... This morning I woke up phenomenally grateful for my bed and the fact that...

May 2014

May 06, 2014

Popping the emotional cork off of being raised fatherless…

... I had absolutely no intention of writing about fathers five days before Mother's Day...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Wake Up and Welcome Back…

... Begone acedia. Begone sullenness. Self pity. Ennui. Shoo. Away with thee! I just remembered...

April 07, 2014

Starving For Silence…

... You know what I miss? Silence. There have been relatively few moments in my...

March 2014

March 04, 2014

Worry, Worms, and Religion…

... There is nothing I won't worry about. I worry about finances, the future, and...

November 2013

November 14, 2013

Where Crow Becomes Part of My Diet …

... We have rule in Casa De Crescat -- no bad mouthing priests in front...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

Reminiscing the weekend away…

... Gospel music is so underrated. Especially Southern Gospel. Some of that older stuff, stuff...

August 2013

August 11, 2013

There Really Are No Guarantees…

... Did you know the Salvation Army doesn't sell donated Bibles? Nope. They give them...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

How Women Blow Their Marriages…

... So there's this article from last year that's recently been making the rounds online;...

July 23, 2013

If I Don’t Give To Beggars How Will My Charity Get Tested…

... I'll admit it; I like facebook. Probably a bit too much. I contend it's...

July 13, 2013

No Matter Who’s The Pope, The Church Will Always Still Be THE Church…

... The humblest thing I ever saw a pope do was to abdicate the papacy....

July 08, 2013

Pope Francis’ Preference for Simplicity Leaves Much To Be Spiritually Desired…

... I had the weirdest dream last night. It was about Pope Francis. He was...

July 03, 2013

It’s The Little Things, A Lesson in Yogurt Theology …

... As cliche as it sounds, yes, sometimes it is quite literally the littlest things...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

The Boston Bomber’s Widow and Abusive Relationships…

... Reading about Katherine Russell/Karima Tsarnaev, the widow of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, reminds me...

January 2013

January 19, 2013

How The Nine Days Of Prayers Comforted Me While I Fought Demons…

... With the upcoming March For Life, the topic of abortion seems to be every...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

Probably Unacceptable Prayer…

... OK, unacceptable is a slight exaggeration. Maybe more along the lines of "imperfect" prayer....

October 2012

October 11, 2012

Prayer, Sin, and Faith…

... Someone once told me that when we are in a state of mortal sin...

September 2012

September 05, 2012

An Exercise in Faith and Trust…

... For something as seemingly infinite as the internet, things are starting to feel a...

July 2012

July 03, 2012

Changing Everything But Ourselves…

... Today I realized I'd forgotten how to pray the rosary. No, not the prayers....

June 2012

June 25, 2012

all consuming jealousy…

... Have you ever woken up in a bad mood for absolutely no reason and...

April 2012

April 27, 2012

Sometimes being Catholic is so very hard…

Why do I write? Because I have to. There was never a time in my...

April 02, 2012

Remembering the Pope I never really knew…

... I never knew Bl. John Paul II, at least not while he was alive....