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August 2014

August 13, 2014
The prolific Catholic writer, EWTN personality, and notable public speaker Mike Aquilina is, I should...
August 13, 2014
The message I just sent to Land's End, which is apparently sending out as a...
August 12, 2014
German men receive one in five of all those done in the world, and more...
August 12, 2014
"One can readily see," writes George Washington professor Amitai Etzioni, perhaps most famous now for...
August 12, 2014
The year I wrote A Great & Glorious, but Debated, Assumption, that holy day of...
August 11, 2014
God Texts the Ten Commandments, by James Quatro on McSweeney's. Here are the first three:...
August 11, 2014
Catholics will be celebrating the Feast of the Assumption on Friday. Here, in case in the...
August 08, 2014
Go here and read. Two young friends did the same thing this summer but sadly have not...
August 08, 2014
In his celebration of the ordination forty years ago of the first Episcopal women ministers, the Episopalian...
August 07, 2014
In Obama the Light-Worker: Thoughts From 2008, I passed along the reflections of a Mark...
August 07, 2014
A cartoon explaining the difference between wearing a suit on the east and the west...
August 07, 2014
Archbishop Charles Chaput says it would be a mistake to call Francis a liberal or...
August 06, 2014
Customers can treat waiters and fast food clerks very badly, sometimes amazingly badly. Some of it's...
August 06, 2014
As it turns out, egyptologists had the answer all the time, illustrated with a very...
August 06, 2014
"I think it is part of our endless colonial mindset that we wait for ideas,...
August 06, 2014
Robert P. George warns about the addictive drug that is fame and approval: Advice to...
August 05, 2014
In last Thursday's The Experience of Conversion I quoted the first few paragraphs of an essay...
August 05, 2014
In last Friday's A Lesson for Creative People, I passed on a story about then...
August 04, 2014
Physicist George Ellis Knocks Physicists for Knocking Philosophy, Falsification, Free Will, by John Horgan, from...
August 04, 2014
Writing in June 2008, an SF Gate and Huffington Post columnist named Mark Morford explained...
August 04, 2014
Leo XIII favored snuff. Before he became pope, he had served for a time as...
August 03, 2014
"It was moving to see all the different forms of piety focused, concentrated in an...
August 01, 2014
The sign of peace is to kept in the same place at Mass, says the...
August 01, 2014
Starting with Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa, the Intercollegiate Review presents the Fifty Worst...
August 01, 2014
A useful lesson for writers, scholars, teachers, and anyone else doing some kind of creative work,...

July 2014

July 31, 2014
For writers, two cartoons, not hugely funny but amusing: Creative Thinking and The Writer's Retreat.
July 31, 2014
How often do you get bitten tells the story of a young man who (as...
July 31, 2014
One kind of would-be convert, as I wrote in Long's Commitments a couple of days...
July 30, 2014
Something many readers may have seen, but for those like me who hadn't, here is...
July 30, 2014
"[H]is marriage ended, and he began to feel that the church was more his former...
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