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May 2015

May 13, 2015
There was some debate among internet-Catholics about the recent findings by the Pew Research Center concerning the...
May 13, 2015
I was clicking through Facebook this morning and of course there were lunch boxes everywhere....
May 12, 2015
The responses to the first Listen to Me survey have been astounding so far.  If you...
May 11, 2015
Updated to preface the comments below with responses to two readers who scrupled in various...
May 10, 2015
I've lost my patience with church people who just won't listen to the real stories...
May 10, 2015
Father Longenecker* writes about his frustration as a homilist here, and he raises a good...
May 08, 2015
  It's that weekend again, and people, nice people, have already started wishing me happy...
May 07, 2015
I've written on the topic of transgender Christians before, see the last two links in...
May 01, 2015
I'm reminded by Ruth at Wheelie Catholic that May 1 is Blogging Against Disablism Day....

April 2015

April 28, 2015
I'd like to invite those of you with the means to do so to contribute...
April 19, 2015
In a private conversation I found myself writing, "This is why I despise, and I...
April 18, 2015
Here's Simcha Fisher writing about her food stamp experience, and her experience should disturb you,...
April 16, 2015
Readers at this blog, inspired by the knowledge that Pope Francis is just as likely...
April 16, 2015
The trouble with being Catholic is that there's not a quiz at the door.  One...
April 09, 2015
Follow-up to my previous post, here's Christian LeBlanc teaching the Catholic faith in a grainy...
April 09, 2015
In a follow-up on the topic of getting the parent-Church relationship right, here are three...
April 05, 2015
The feasts of the liturgical year intertwine.  At Christmas we adore the baby Jesus, cuddly,...
April 01, 2015
Dear Pope Francis, Other people have shared their ideas with you on how to bring...

March 2015

March 23, 2015
So I've got four high school students sitting at my kitchen table, and we're going...
March 22, 2015
The spouse sneaks back to the bedroom this afternoon and says in a low voice,...
March 20, 2015
In private discussions of my post about the role of parents in catechesis, a number...
March 18, 2015
This is a follow-on to yesterday's post, in which I pointed out problems.  Big ones....
March 17, 2015
Ninth grade is when our parish does confirmation, and my son indicated last summer that...
March 17, 2015
  I just received Margaret Rose Realy's latest book, A Catholic Gardener's Spiritual Almanac. I've had a...
March 16, 2015
I have an irrational aversion to dressing matchy-matchy with the liturgical calendar, which backfired Sunday....
March 10, 2015
When I answered Tom McDonald's How I Pray series, one of the pile of question marks...
March 06, 2015
Found myself in an awkward spot today, needing to be in the state capital at...

February 2015

February 24, 2015
In response to a private conversation lamenting some of the unrelenting negativity that can infect...
February 23, 2015
. . . is a thorough reading of the lives of the saints.  Don't pick...
February 20, 2015
In a private forum, someone asked why Catholics don't talk about acts of penance so much...
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