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March 2024

March 11, 2024
So it's Sunday night and I just clicked "publish" on a post I'd been working...
March 10, 2024
Over and over again, the Pope says things which make "traditional"/ "orthodox"/ "conservative" Catholics want...

February 2024

February 18, 2024
What is "No Labels"? No Labels is an entity which may - or may not...
February 10, 2024
You've seen the quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can...

December 2023

December 28, 2023
Who are the God-Fearers, you ask? Let's rephrase that as, "who were the God-Fearers?" --...
December 28, 2023
It's Christmas, and massive numbers of people are arriving at the southern border of the...

November 2023

November 30, 2023
So over the weekend (as part of my overall effort to blog more often) I...
November 25, 2023
Yeah, actually I'm not sure of the best way to label this as I try...

October 2023

October 30, 2023
The background:  Chicago and New York are both dealing with migrant crises. (Yes, this part...
October 21, 2023
It's a quiet Saturday afternoon and I had sat down at the computer to put...

September 2023

September 23, 2023
A follow-up from my prior post, again referencing James Martin's article: Now, I cannot speak...
September 09, 2023
Yes, I spend too much time on twitter.  Among other things, this means that each...

August 2023

August 26, 2023
In Illinois, and Chicago in particular, along with various other declared "sanctuary states," there have...
August 26, 2023
Here's a collection of recent reports on students and young adults in schools and the...

July 2023

July 17, 2023
The Illinois Republican Party is struggling -- maybe not in the same way as in...
July 08, 2023
Yes, I'm going there:  it's time to address the "transkid" issue -- hopefully with an...

December 2022

December 27, 2022
Who recalls the metaphor of the violinist on life support? This metaphor was created by...
December 27, 2022
What does it mean to be "gender-creative"? To be "gender expansive"? To be "gender non-conforming"?...

September 2022

September 21, 2022
In 2018, I took over the job of "after-mass hospitality coordinator" from the prior volunteers,...

August 2022

August 21, 2022
Regular readers of my page on retirement issues at Forbes will have noticed by now...

July 2022

July 31, 2022
Longtime readers will know my story thus far:  after blogging as a hobby for a...

June 2022

June 28, 2022
I keep revisiting this draft, which I started a long time ago, when the Supreme...

May 2022

May 17, 2022
So . . . turns out it's been a while since I've published a blog...

February 2022

February 07, 2022
To start, a disclosure: a little under two years ago, I was most definitely an...

January 2022

January 31, 2022
What is the most appropriate book for middle schoolers to read to learn about the...
January 04, 2022
As regular readers may know, I am in the middle of a master's program in...
January 04, 2022
It's Elizabeth Ann Seton's feast day today.  You know her -- first American-born saint, founder...
January 01, 2022
Earlier this week, Cardinal Cupich announced that henceforth the Traditional Latin Mass in the Archdiocese...

December 2021

December 27, 2021
Yes, this irritates me enough to prod me to write after a long break.  Well,...

August 2021

August 14, 2021
Hey, everyone -- I wrote the following on that first weekend when the collapse of...
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