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November 10, 2014
“We see horrific violations of charity and reason all over the internet…”
Fr. Z unloads on Catholic blog commenters, and explains why he moderates the comments: I...
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September 18, 2014
Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Shea sums it all up
The best thing I've read all day: We need to become more fully Catholic, but...
September 17, 2014
Fast Company magazine takes a look at “blogging nuns and tweeting monks”
Suddenly, the mainstream media has discovered religious folk on the web. Who knew? Details: In...
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August 25, 2014
All about Eve: Eve Tushnet talks about being “Gay and Catholic”
Recently, my blog neighbor Eve Tushnet got the Salai Treatment (being interviewed by Sean Salai, S.J.) in America...
August 25, 2014
What can you do about cruel comments online?
Some interesting insight into a subject we've all encountered at one time or another, via...
August 21, 2014
James Foley reminds us of what we knew all along: prayer matters
Elizabeth Scalia, as usual, nails it: What I have been arguing for in these past...
August 21, 2014
Archdiocese throws cold water on the “ice bucket challenge”
And if you read on, you'll see one of our Patheos bloggers mentioned. Details: The...
July 2014
July 31, 2014
What we have come to: language blogger fired for writing about “homophones”
Really: Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same...
June 2014
June 20, 2014
Team Patheos!
A little group of us, representing part of the Patheos Catholic Channel, gathered to lead...
June 19, 2014
Gospel and BBQ in Charlotte!
No one can say the visit to Charlotte has been dull. This evening's Mass was...
June 19, 2014
Archbishop Kurtz on digital media: We need to move “from diatribe to dialogue”
Louisville's Archbishop Joseph Kurtz delivered the keynote at last night's session of the Catholic Media...
May 2014
May 23, 2014
Rep. Rebecca Hamilton says goodbye to all that
My blog neighbor—18-year veteran of the Oklahoma House of Representatives—is finishing up her last session...
May 21, 2014
Smile: 10 commandments for the digital age
From The Telegraph: It might seem far removed from some of its more sombre instructions...
May 05, 2014
Happy birthday, dear Patheos, happy birthday to yooooouuuu….
Patheos is pretty big for a five-year-old, don't you think? Today marks the five-year anniversary,...
May 04, 2014
On deacons, blogs, bishops and obedience
Over at his blog, Deacons Today, Bill Ditewig unpacks the recent controversy surrounding the UK's...
May 03, 2014
UK Bishop: “I have not closed down the deacon’s blog”
Remember this item about Deacon Nick Donnelly in the Diocese of Lancaster in the UK?...
April 2014
April 29, 2014
Another deacon at Patheos: Congratulations to Scot McKnight!
A little over three years ago, I was blogging at Beliefnet when Elizabeth Scalia called...
April 29, 2014
UK bishop shuts down deacon’s blog
You may remember the controversy surrounding the blog "Protect the Pope", managed by Deacon Nick...
April 25, 2014
The Canonization Chronicles: A deacon’s view in Rome this week
Deacon Bill Ditewig, in Rome for the canonizations, found the most important spot in the...
April 16, 2014
“The sacred and profane collide on the Via Dolorosa”
Thousands of pilgrims walk the streets of Jerusalem every year, retracing the footsteps of Christ,...
April 14, 2014
“Pope Francis has challenged us all to look more closely at the way we are as a church…”
A paper in South Jersey, the Courier-Post, looks at the controversy over where bishops live,...
March 2014
March 20, 2014
“The emergence of the Catholic blogosphere is one of the most significant developments in the 21st century Church”
An editorial from the UK's Catholic Herald: It’s not difficult to find evidence of our...
March 20, 2014
A contrarian view of “unplugging”
If you are one of those who has forsaken Facebook or Twitter for Lent, you...
March 14, 2014
Bishop in UK orders deacon to stop blogging
An interesting turn of events across the pond, via London's The Tablet: A deacon who...
February 2014
February 03, 2014
Best description of Seattle. Ever.
Hot on the heels of last night's less-than-cliffhanger Super Bowl, a much-too-gleeful Washingtonian (Mark Shea)...
January 2014
January 24, 2014
“The pope seems to chide those who use the Internet to make statements but refuse to accept comments…”
Yesterday, Sister Mary Ann Walsh of the USCCB took a closer look at the pope's...
January 22, 2014
The most common passwords of 2013
Honestly? Sheesh: Password security is more important than ever. If you wonder which ones are the...
January 17, 2014
“There will always be those who reject truth; we need to make sure it isn’t our growling teeth that causes them to flee…”
I stumbled across this in a blog post by Diane Korzeniewski, about celebrated preacher Fr....
January 16, 2014
Thomas Peters, six months on
For those who have been following his story, and remembering him in prayer, an update:...
January 14, 2014
Questions to ask before posting to social media—UPDATED
This could serve as a handy companion piece to my Examination of Conscience for the...
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