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February 2020

February 28, 2020

We Drink from Our Own Wells

A question for these troubled times in the Church and perhaps in our personal faith...

May 2018

May 17, 2018

Mass at the Peripheries

We all know the Mass-hopper: that restless type who constantly whines that he can’t take...

October 2017

October 13, 2017

Babylon’s Falling: Recovering an Exilic Christian Consciousness

Babylon is indeed falling. But then, Babylon is always falling, which is to say that...

August 2017

August 08, 2017

Feeling the Francis Effect

How to understand Pope Francis? Despite the apparent dyspepsia his arrival has caused among some of...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Jesus the Imagination

Art, says Michael Martin, has the potential to create a new Gospel every day. "Not...

July 11, 2017

Why You Should Read (and Listen to) Sam Rocha

Not long after Pope Francis' election in 2013, we friends around Solidarity Hall began to...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

My Most Grievous Fault: The Moral Problem of Wealth

"How can I make you realize the misery of the poor? How can I make...

March 2017

March 25, 2017

Find Your Own Calcutta

Myself I've never met a saint of the Church and I've only met one person...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

Good News & Great Joy

To all people of good will fighting for social, economic, and environmental justice, defending the...

December 23, 2016

Roasting Marshmallows at the Apocalypse

[A review of Nothing to Vote For: The Futility of the American Electoral Process, by Daniel...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

The Ultimate Deal: Privatizing the Presidency

Dispossessed of jobs and their dignity for a generation now or more, the Trump voters...

November 21, 2016

Lights Coming Back on in Gary

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

November 11, 2016

Radically Catholic in the Age of Trump

For several years now, I've attended daily Mass at St. Clare Church, where the average...

November 08, 2016

An Election Day Lamentation: Mourning a Missed Opportunity

In politics, as in war, there is often only one favorable moment- an opportunity...

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...

July 2016

July 06, 2016

Rediscovering the Golden String

Dear reader, be advised this will not be a standard book review. I have before...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Junger’s Hunger, And Ours

A couple of years ago, I took some members of a large Rwandan refugee family to a...

May 11, 2016

The Fire This Time (Revisited)

This essay is adapted from the original which appeared at Vox Nova on August 23,...

May 02, 2016

The Importance of Slow Architecture

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

March 2016

March 21, 2016

What is the Opposite of a Happy Death?

In a neighboring town I have a wonderful friend Nate who serves as pastor of...

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 05, 2016

The Devil and Donald Trump

"It was the month of May, or the month of June, in any case summer...

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 15, 2016

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year!

This started out as a post on the joy of receiving seed catalogues in deep...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Hospitality, Smallness and the Butterfly Effect

The prospect of living with - as distinct from near or among - the poor...