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June 2016

June 20, 2016

Belated Happy Birthday To Blaise Pascal, Unofficial Saint and Mystic

Over at Aleteia, they're remembering the birthday of a friend of mine. He's one of...

June 02, 2016

HHS Forced Sex Changes? There Ain’t No Fait Accompli For The Church Here

Over at Get Religion, Terry Mattingly wonders why journalists have basically ignored the possibility that...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

“Where Do We Get Such Men?”

That's the last line from the Korean War film, The Bridges At Toko-Ri. Over at...

May 24, 2016

Apparently, There USED to be Secrets of Fatima

Then, the Vatican went and published everything in the clear. No, really. Let me...

May 14, 2016

Because the Church was Catholic at Pentecost

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for this message brought to you by The Church...

May 12, 2016

Pope Francis To Form Commission To Study Women Deacon Option UPDATES

The source? Fr. James Martin,SJ, via Facebook: Huge news. Josh McElwee of NCR and...

May 04, 2016

For Things C.S. Lewis Said Shortly Before He Passed On…

You know how often you can find me scrolling the selections over at the Christian...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

Heading To Philly For The World Meeting Of Families? Watch These Videos…

My pal, Diana von Glahn, aka The Faithful Traveler, lives in Philadelphia. Lucky her! She'll...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Because Jesus Said Plenty About Marriage, and Other Inconvenient Stuff Too…UPDATED

Hey y'all. Didn't you know that Jesus didn't say nothin about homosexuality in the Bible?...

June 20, 2015

Jessica Rey On Bathing Suits: “Who Says It Has To Be Itsy Bitsy?”

UPDATE 6/20/2016: On their website, Jessica Rey Swimwear celebrates the first day of Summer with...

June 01, 2015

The Charlie Charlie Phenomenon: Were We Played For Fools By Hollywood?

. Probably. So reports Jennifer Mullins of E! Online, Ooo, you got us, Hollywood. You...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

The Truth About Blogging (And Blog Readers)…

That's one of the observations Thomas L. McDonald had regarding blogging. F’rinstance, CARA would have...

May 14, 2015

Will The Vatican Let Teilhard de Chardin Help Save The Church?

Does the name Teilhard de Chardin give you the willies? When you saw it in...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Archbishop Kurtz: “Marriage is and always will be the union between one man and one woman.”

Today was the day oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges came before the Supreme Court...

April 25, 2015

I Forgot To Finish The Story About Sleeping In For Easter In Amman. Here’s What We Discovered…

...a beautiful Greek Orthodox parish church with the mouthful name of The Church of Jesus Christ’s...

April 03, 2015

Steven D. Greydanus Recommends “The Miracle Maker,” And I Found A Place Where It’s Streaming…

I don't always agree with the reviews that SDG gives, but I'd be lying if...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

If The World Is Trying To Distract You, Then It’s Probably Holy Week

Oh, look at the calendar! It IS Holy Week. So right when you'd really like...

March 26, 2015

Did Pope Francis Post A Turkey To A Bishopric In Chile? UPDATED

It's looking like it, if you asked me. But nobody asked me, nor would they...

March 19, 2015

Because Joseph Was Really, Really, צדיק

צדיק is the Hebrew word for "righteous," and it is an adjective that the...

March 18, 2015

BREAKING: The Cathedral Of St. Maytag Is Stuck On Rinse Cycle UPDATED

Finally. We have a scandal that we can literally call "Watergate" without blinking an eye....

March 03, 2015

SIGN THE PETITION: Save Religious Minorities Persecuted By ISIS

Are 100,000 Americans willing to say we should be doing more to save the religious...

February 2015

February 22, 2015

What ISIS Really, Really, Wants, And More Importantly, What Joe Six-Pack Wants For ISIS

So, there was this article published by The Atlantic online a week or so...

January 2015

January 23, 2015

The Prodigal Son, The Guru, And The Long, Strange, Trip To Truth…

Webster Bull, my friend, and former blogging partner, has written a memoir about the long,...

December 2014

December 27, 2014

For Mind Blowing, Thoughts, on the Incarnation by Bl. John Duns Scotus

What follows is a republished version of a post I ran on Christmas day in...

December 19, 2014

I Don’t Always Agree With George Clooney, But When I Do…UPDATED

It's when he says we shouldn't be bowing down to sovereign terrorists from North Korea....

November 2014

November 24, 2014

Latest News From The Church Of God Without God…UPDATED

Actually, depending how you look at it, this news is either four years old, or...

November 11, 2014

A Few Thoughts On Veteran’s Day

It's the feast of St. Martin of Tours, and since he was a soldier...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

The Kind Of Post TIME Magazine Never Picks Up, AKA, Hell Is Real!

The other day TIME Magazine picked up a Patheos post from a different channel in...

October 20, 2014

Cardinal Kasper Kind Of, Sort Of, Apologizes (Maybe)…

“If one of my remarks about Africans was perceived as demeaning or insulting, then I...

October 17, 2014

“And When Cardinal Kasper Lied At The Synod, I Stopped Listening To Him At All.”

That's a direct quote from me, Joe Six-Pack, USMC. If you don't know what I'm...