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July 2021

July 13, 2021
My bishop is at it again. Thomas John Paprocki, bishop of the Diocese of Springfield...
July 07, 2021
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain New York: HarperCollins, 2017 (First Harper Perennial Edition) 312 pages,...

June 2021

June 30, 2021
Line of Duty (2012 – ) Created by Jed Mercurio The more I watch police...

January 2021

January 07, 2021
Take a good, hard look at the photo that accompanies this article. That flag. Carried...

November 2020

November 21, 2020
Joe Biden won. Donald Trump, who once mocked the president-elect as “sleepy Joe…hiding in his...

October 2020

October 13, 2020
A few days ago I published a piece in which I explained how a Catholic...

August 2020

August 13, 2020
A few days ago I published a piece in which I explained how a Catholic...
August 09, 2020
LifeSite News, the allegedly Catholic pro-life webpage, wants you to vote Republican this fall; to...

July 2020

July 06, 2020
WARNING: Spoilers Stranger Things starts with a top-secret government lab at which an experiment goes awry....

February 2020

February 23, 2020
It is common for Christian conservatives to tout the Ten Commandments as their ideal roadmap...
February 12, 2020
Meet Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, ordinary of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. He is...

January 2020

January 27, 2020
The first batch of beer I ever brewed was in the home of a Muslim....
January 18, 2020
In the morning, I usually see some item about President Trump that looks like it...
January 17, 2020
I have just a few quick words about Christopher Tolkien, who died Thursday, aged 95....

December 2019

December 07, 2019
Advent is a season of expectation, of waiting, in hope. The most well-known Advent hymn...

August 2019

August 28, 2019
What follows is neither an endorsement nor a condemnation of Planned Parenthood. That’s not the...
August 16, 2019
Thursday night, Stephen Colbert sat down with CNN's Anderson Cooper for an hour-long discussion (it...

July 2019

July 13, 2019
I’ll give Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput one thing: he knows how to cover his tracks....

May 2019

May 21, 2019
Tolkien (2019) Directed by Dome Karukoski Written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford Rated PG-13 (for...

April 2019

April 30, 2019
I published the below post last May. I am republishing it because Tuesday, April 30...
April 18, 2019
One of the great joys of editing Gilbert! for fourteen years was editing James V....
April 15, 2019
Jesus' words, from Matthew 24:35, were what first passed through my mind when I saw...
April 11, 2019
Season 8 of Game of Thrones premiers Sunday. The anticipation is enough to make any...

March 2019

March 25, 2019
Today, we celebrate two events, one fictional and one real. The fictional event is the...
March 18, 2019
Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s campaign for president started as a snowball. It is...
March 05, 2019
Lent is a dreary time. From Ash Wednesday to the Triduum, we count the days...
March 05, 2019
I woke up Sunday morning to the below comment on Facebook, in response to the...
March 01, 2019
Updated to add additional information I did not know existed when I published this -...

February 2019

February 12, 2019
Fox Searchlight on Tuesday released the first official trailer from its upcoming film, Tolkien, which hits...

January 2019

January 20, 2019
NB: I have updated this post because of new information available today. --SPD Want media...
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