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Tonight is the vigil of Christ's Ascension. Forty days after he rose from the grave,...

I'm working on a new book, non-fiction this time: basically, it's "Mudblood Catholic, the book."...

Now that I have your attention, SEX! You know, that thing my blog is inextricably...

Intro; The Misters President; The Unsafety Net; The Catch Closing out this series, I'd feel...

Intro; The Misters President; The Unsafety Net So far we've taken a look at some...

I don't know whether my sleep schedule is irrevocably screwed up because I took one...

We've come to the close of Lent. Tonight the Triduum begins with the Maundy Thursday...

Palm Sunday The beginning of Christendom is, strictly, at a point out of time. A...

As you've perhaps noticed, shit has grown decidedly real. I'm low-key freaked out. I had a...

Intro; The Misters President Sorry to go radio-silent for so long there—had a couple heavy...

Intro Hey, sweaties. In my last, I went over single-issue voting versus the "seamless garment"...

The issue of abortion has been the chief political rallying point for conservative Catholics and...

I. I haven't really got out of the doldrums I described in my last post...

I'm sitting at my desk, drinking a beer and listening to Dishwalla (shut up), and...

I. Busy week, so I've put my series on Just War Theory on the backburner...

Intro; Part One Every life is sacred. The only reason the Church can even consider...

Intro Violence is a bad thing. This basic truth—intuitive enough to most people that I...

A nice easy set of topics to cover, but don't worry, I'll be 100% objective....

Every New Year's Eve, I do an arts review—good stuff that came out (or that...

One rarely sees a film whose principal message to its audience appears to be "So...

I haven't been able to write much for the blog of late. For the last...

Part One Content warning: descriptions of sexual maturation, queerphobic slurs Honestly, this part was hard...

There's a real gap in understanding, I find, between most straight Catholics' experience of Catholic...

Part One; Part Two; Part Three And now we come to the salacious part, the...

Financial corruption is another major element that runs throughout the Church's scandals. It takes money...

Part One Let's start with some suggestions for reforming authority structures in the Church, shall...

Wanna mess around and massively reform the Catholic Church? haha jk ... unless? The sex...

Part One In my last, I discussed various sins of the tongue, and, in particular,...

It seems that we, the Catholics of the internet, could do with a refresher on...

So today was All Souls, a.k.a. Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead....