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June 2016

June 15, 2016

Because My Brother Imran Yousef Is An American Hero

Another kid from New York was in the nightclub that turned into a killing zone...

June 03, 2016

This Is Why God Invented YouTube…

Sure, the kitten videos are cute, and watching re-runs of MTV is bitchin', and...

June 01, 2016

Because Pious Nonsense Is Not the Good News

Yesterday, I was taking my afternoon break from work. I wandered through the little park...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

For What Happens To Our Bodies When We Die, And Rise Again…

"And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall...

May 17, 2016

President Obama Embraces the Fait Accompli He Wasn’t Looking For UPDATED

What a difference 4 and 1/2 years makes. Wait. It's been 5 1/2 years? Has...

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 11, 2016

There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy (A Few Words for Wednesday)

Long ago, I shared a poem by Frederick Faber in this space. This week, I...

May 10, 2016

Proof-Texting Jesus, Post Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal Style

I was saddened today to learn that a priest who had been removed from his...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

The #1 Reason the Catholic Church Won’t Support Same-Sex Marriage…

It's quite simple, actually. Oh, you won't see the reason talked about by folks using...

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 12, 2015

For Thoughts On The Solemnity Of The Most Sacred Heart Of Jesus

Are you on vacation yet? The funny thing about vacations is that when on holiday...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

A Landslide Of Biblical Proportions…

The incident of liquefaction below was captured on tape back in February, 2010. It reminds...

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 01, 2015

Indiana Bishops Release Statement On Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Six days after Governor Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act heard 'round the world into...

March 2015

March 29, 2015

Because Christ Came to Occupy, and Reclaim, the World

There was a brutal bear market in the Spring of the year 33 AD. Not...

March 04, 2015

Because the Anti-Christ is Politics

I've been reading Giovanni Papini's Life of Christ some more. My Chinese mentor, John C.H....

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Because Of The Sacraments (A Few Words for Wednesday)

I just ran across these thoughts by Reverend Jesse Brett over at my favorite electronic...

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,...

January 03, 2015

Because “And You Shall Name Him יהושע”

Remember chanting the antiphon "O Adonai" a few weeks ago? We translate Adonai as LORD, which...

December 2014

December 20, 2014

Peter Frampton Asks A Question: “Do You Feel Like I Do About Internet Angermongers?”

From his Facebook page, Such a drag that there's so much hate posted everywhere...

December 16, 2014

The Right Way To Interrogate Enemy Prisoners Of War, Courtesy Of A Marine Who Was A Missionary UPDATED

This is the last time I'll be posting about this subject. Yesterday I shared a...

December 15, 2014

Thoughts On Torture Occasioned By Mass At The Garden Of Gethsemane UPDATED

My wife and I have arrived home safe and sound from our pilgrimage trip to...

December 08, 2014

Warning: Don’t Travel To The Holy Land, For Thou Shalt Surely Die

Before getting into the meat of this short dispatch that I am typing from Jerusalem,...

November 2014

November 29, 2014

Pope Francis Says “Don’t Treat The Church Like A Business.” This Means It Has To Be Run Better Than A Business

Whoa, Frank. Are you putting words in Pope Francis's mouth? No, dear reader. I'm...

November 04, 2014

Jesus, On Feeding The Homeless

On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of...

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...

August 2014

August 13, 2014

This Thai Life Insurance Commercial “Gets” Marriage

To have and to hold, from this day forward; for better, for worse, for richer,...

August 11, 2014

Pope Francis: ISIS Onslaught “offends God and offends humanity.”

Listen to our brothers and sisters. Listen to our shepherd. That our adversaries believe it...

July 2014

July 27, 2014

Psalm 119, The Hebrew Letter נ (Nun), And A Prayer

As Christians around the globe adopt the Arabic letter ن‎ (nun) as their profile pictures on...