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December 2011

December 22, 2011

To Cultivate the Desert in this Jungle of Words

Words can be tricky things. Words spoken. Words written. Words thought of. Words acted upon....

December 22, 2011

North Korea in 1000 Words

Satellite photograph of the two Korea's at night. On the plus side, I guess, the...

December 21, 2011

Because Christ and His Church Are the Light of the World

No longer does the Church exercise temporal powers over domains. The Papal States are back...

December 19, 2011

Because Fr. Dwight Longenecker Is Wrong UPDATED

What the Sam Hill are you talking about Frank? How dare you say one of...

December 17, 2011

Planned Parenthood Approval Rating is 68%. Really?!

So says Gail Collins in today's New York Times. Maybe she just means in New...

December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens, Requescat in pace

One of the practices Catholics engage in that really infuriates the world is that we...

December 15, 2011

A Few Thoughts on the Political Dimension And Some Homework

The gospel precept of charity enlightens Christians as to the deepest meaning of political life....

December 12, 2011

Meet Wyoming Catholic College

I always liked Wyoming. During the summer between my junior and senior year of college,...

December 11, 2011

The Most Consistent, Pro-Freedom, Pro-Constitution, Pro-Life, Candidate in the Race UPDATED

There is definitely a "new top tier," and the favorite of folks in the military,...

December 08, 2011

Lines on Pride from Alexander Pope’s An Essay On Man

Often times cataclysmic events leave us at a loss. We have feelings and thoughts but...

December 07, 2011

Because the Sacraments Make the World Go ‘Round

I've been real busy these last few days with a bit of a family emergency....

November 2011

November 22, 2011

The New Mass Translation? The Marines In WWII Had That.

Well, it's pretty close, from what I can tell. And it makes a handy little...

November 21, 2011

The Ayn Rand Movie Recall Hilarity

This might be an Onion story but...this just in: 100,000 Atlas Shrugged DVD's Recalled for...

November 16, 2011

Because the Reality of Our Fallenness Isn’t Pretty-UPDATED

David Brooks explains it pretty well in his Op-Ed in New York Times from a...

November 12, 2011

Another Reason to Call the Cops: It’s Your Only Option UPDATED

That's right. I'm referring to the post I wrote yesterday about why you need to...

November 11, 2011

Thoughts On the Penn State Scandal, On A Friday

Back in March of 2010, when the sexual abuse scandal in the Church got its...

November 03, 2011

For Seven Layer Dips of Awesome Like This

Dracula, Sin, The Good News, Prayer, Faith, Forgiveness, Redemption. Mark Shea does a little hammering...

September 2011

September 26, 2011

Hey Gen-X: Be Rebels…Slow Down…Have Kids…Stick it to the Man

It's the Catholic thing to do. Or you can keep doing what you've been doing,...

September 23, 2011

A Message on Mortgage Debt from the World

Just a quick note to parish finance committees from Joe Six-Pack, Catholic layman (in the...

September 17, 2011

A Modest Proposal: Treat Priests Like Officers, Not Like Corporate CEO’s

"Soldier, shut up and soldier!" That's one of my favorite lines from Robert Heinlein's novel...

August 2011

August 25, 2011

For Stuff My Abba Macarius Says About Discerning True Christians

A while back, I introduced everyone to my patron, St. Macarius the Great. He has...

August 24, 2011

To Find Peacefulness of Soul, Be Confident in the Mercy of the Lord

What follows are a few thoughts on Christian peace of the soul by my friend...

August 19, 2011

Thoughts on the Economy: Catholic, and Not

Ok, class. Today's lesson is on a little thing called "regression to the mean." That's...

August 18, 2011

For the Earth and Its Fullness…UPDATED!

I have no idea what kind of bird this is, where it is from, or...

August 13, 2011

An Appeal For the Horn of Africa, In Free Verse (Updated)

For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you...

August 12, 2011

Thoughts On New Media And Evangelization

I'm not a "new media" expert.But to me,"New Media" is old mediawithout editors,without barriers,without bosses.At...

August 11, 2011

The Suffering Church: Scandal

This is the final part of a three part series. Some folks thought I was...

August 08, 2011

For “Ghetto Catholicism?” Not Hardly.

The thoughts I share with you now were originally published in 1961, and in...

August 07, 2011

Around the World in 3 Minutes: Move, Learn, Eat

One of my favorite lines from scripture concerns "the earth and its fullness." As a...

August 05, 2011

Because of the Protestant Reformers Beliefs On Mary

Another Marian post as we are ten days from the Feast of the Assumption. This...