Roundup for Noontime Reading

October 14, 2010 By

Busyness has made me remiss in letting you folks know about Patheos’ Religion and Faith Book Club, which is currently discussing Stephen Prothero’s God is Not One, with a nifty tie-in to the PBS-series, which is also looking at the book. Sadly, neither the book nor the series has crossed my path, simply because of [...]

Filed Under: Celibacy, Crucible of Faith, Culture of Life/Death, Health Care, Here and Queer, Obama Bad?, Obama White House, Send in the clowns, Serving up hot links, Socialism doesn't work

Beatifying Newman, Neri & More

August 26, 2010 By

One of the books I’ll be trying to read while in Rome is John Henry Newman; Prayers, Verses and Devotions, from Ignatius Press. Just as it seems like St. Philip Neri, my Patron for this year, may have had a hand in making Rome a suddenly reality (when I discovered that our lodgings are very [...]

Filed Under: Bookchat, Catholic Vocations, Catholicism, Celibacy, Communion of Saints, Neri, Newman, Nun News, Oratory, Patrons, Saints Tagged With: ,

The Elite Magic Circle – UPDATED

August 9, 2010 By

Check out Michael Liccione’s latest on the falling of the Catholic Church from the magic circle of the elite. Whatever the ideological coloration, if any, of a magic circle might be, just being part of a magic circle is usually bad for peoples’ souls. It constitutes a culture of privilege that insulates them from the [...]

Filed Under: Benedict XVI, Catholicism, Celibacy, Crisis & Opportunity, Critical Thinking, Crooks and Liars, Crucible of Faith, Culture of Life/Death

The Wussification of the Workplace- UPDATES

May 18, 2010 By

:::WARNING: The very funny and insightful essay and link I am about to present to you contains a variation of the “S” word and several renderings of the “F” word. If you cannot handle the “F” word in any context, please do not follow this link. Go write me a letter about how scandalized you [...]

Filed Under: America, American Genius, Celibacy, Critical Thinking, Culture of Life/Death, Economic woe

The New Celibates

May 12, 2010 By

How ironic that in a year where religious, and especially priestly, celibacy has been put under a microscope, debated and often excoriated, the secular hipsters in New York City are discovering the power that comes with celibacy: “I had man whiplash,” [Julia Allison] says. “I needed to put my neck in a brace.” She issued [...]

Filed Under: "Remaking" Ourselves, Alternative Energy, Catholic Vocations, Celibacy, Christians in Exile, Dominican Order, Faith Perspective, Feminism, Sexuality

John Allen; definitive on Benedict, Scandals

April 16, 2010 By

The great John Allen, perhaps the best English-language reporter on the Vatican beat, does yeoman’s work in three different articles, to which I am linking today. Allen takes knowledgeable, sometimes devastating but always fair looks at Pope Benedict XVI and the crisis that has engulfed him over the past few weeks and has come to [...]

Filed Under: Benedict XVI, Benedictine, Catholic Vocations, Catholicism, Celibacy, Chaput, Crucible of Faith, Culture of Life/Death, Faith Friday, Feminism, Leadership, Penance, Quotes of the Day, Scandal, Touch of evil, Year of the Priest

Sex Abuse is about Control and Power

April 15, 2010 By

The Catholic League has taken out a full-page ad in the NY Times that tries to be a point-by-point rebuttal to the Times’ reverberating prelude to Holy Week. As rebuttal it is a tad weak -that’s what happens when your answer rightly requires 10,000 words and 350 is all you can manage in 18 pt [...]

Filed Under: Benedict XVI, Catholic Vocations, Catholicism, Celibacy, Crisis & Opportunity, Crucible of Faith, Faith, Fr. James Martin, Here and Queer, Scandal