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November 2016

November 21, 2016

Lights Coming Back on in Gary

I knew my involvement in civic matters in northwest Indiana would eventually take me to...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

What I Saw on the Porch

In temporary relief from the ongoing telenovella of our impending national election, we habitues of the Front...

June 2016

June 09, 2016

Dumb Things I Used to Believe

Having come into the Church as a convert on Easter Sunday, 1986, I am what’s...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

A Saint for a New Socioeconomic Order

Saints, G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, are an antidote to whatever the age neglects. Such...

May 02, 2016

The Importance of Slow Architecture

I've not been to Las Vegas since my high school Latin group stopped there briefly...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

“Running In and Out with a Flag” (the Distributist League)

“Look here,” G.B. Shaw once gently chaffed his friend and debating partner G.K. Chesterton, “Is...

April 08, 2016

Deconstructing the Corner Drugstore

If you haven't read Jeremy Beer's The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity,...

March 2016

March 16, 2016

The Next Church and How to Get There

Being a Patheos blogger, you understand, is a pretty cush deal. For example, the folks...

March 07, 2016

D’Souza’s Hillarious America

We’re usually fairly serious around this blog but I want to begin by recalling one...

March 03, 2016

Trump Trashtalk from the Fans

Our new bishop at the Diocese of Gary is a mild-mannered guy but lately he...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

Francis Comes to Murderville

My friend Gerald called me about his recent trip down to Ciudad Juarez for the...

February 08, 2016

Bankers in Hell

In 2009 I was working on a project in Chicago which put me in contact...

February 03, 2016

“Why Are You My Friend?”

About four years ago I gave in to the temptation of speaking to a men's...