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March 2015

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...
February 20, 2015
I'm home sick today with something normal for a change, sore throat, which means I have...
February 19, 2015
Good news: If your Lent needs some improvement, there's no law that you can't adjust your...
February 18, 2015
I know these people who don't love ashtags.  People like Monique Ocampo, who is even giving...
February 18, 2015
My young daughter, whose cuteness makes her look even younger, sat on the stool at...
February 16, 2015
The book I've just finished reading is Margaret Rose Realy's Cultivating God's Garden Through Lent.  I'm...
February 13, 2015
Fr. Longenecker writes here on why Catholics can't have good music, and he makes a...
February 12, 2015
Under increasing pressure from the Vatican to come up with something better than "definite progress"...
February 11, 2015
Fr. Dwight Longenecker has released his second Screwtape-style novel, Slubgrip Instructs.  C.S. Lewis fans are understandably...
February 10, 2015
(Quick update to remind the catechists: This is a blog for adults, not kids. Patheos...
February 07, 2015
If you browse among the purveyors of sex toys, which you most emphatically should not...
February 02, 2015
It's the Feast of the Presentation, the very last day of Christmas no matter how...

January 2015

January 26, 2015
This Sunday's Gospel has Jesus out for a walk on the beach, and he sees...
January 26, 2015
I periodically give the friends and relatives a health update, which I don't usually publish here....
January 22, 2015
Reminder that today is a day of prayer and penance.  Why, you ask?  Because any...
January 21, 2015
Bad news for human souls: The US Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal...
January 20, 2015
I wasn't going to comment on the Pope's rabbit talk until I saw Dr. Greg...
January 19, 2015
In 1988 I moved to a small town in South Carolina, not far from where...
January 17, 2015
In thinking about the massacres in Nigeria, my train of thought ran like this: How...
January 15, 2015
This story is for Melanie Bettinelli, who is far more thoughtful than I am, and...
January 14, 2015
Rebecca is a throwing a baby shower for Simcha Fisher -- I think you get...
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