You’ll notice I said “questions,” not “answers.”  Ethical consumerism was so much easier when we were just too poor to buy anything! Read more

I don’t know why I always say, “I’ll spare you the details,” when I really won’t.   Read more

The American Bishops are on a roll! Read more

Miss it if you can. Read more

around 5:40 EDT for about 20 minutes, talking about the abstinence and sex ed posts I wrote.  While I am honored that they asked me on the show, I’m trying hard not to think about how incoherent I usually am by that time of day!  Is it still considered cutting edge to say “sort of” instead of “you know?” The Drew Mariani Show Read more

Congratulations to . . . deopatriaeamicis the winner of Feast Days and Holidays: Living and Celebrating Our Catholic Traditions.  Thanks for playing, everyone!  I’ll have another nice book giveaway in a couple of weeks.  Happy Friday! Read more

Hello, everyone.  Guess how many times I wrote today’s post and then WordPress, Expression Engine, and the Microsoft Word lost it?  And guess how many medals I’ve earned for not just filling in this post with colorful exclamations having to do with . . . ducks?   And mothers?  The answer to the first question is THREE.  And the answer to the second one is NOT ENOUGH. The good news is, they sell REALLY BIG GLASSES at the dollar store.  And... Read more

One of the excellent comments on the Register for today’s post (which is not political; I just thought this was a good comment): This is why Catholics need to be wary about taking sides in the United States’ “Culture War”. The US is predominantly a Protestant nation. This means that the battle lines aren’t between secularism and Christianity, but secularism and heretical Christianity. (Not that I don’t like Protestants, but their moral theology is seriously deficient. I certainly don’t stay... Read more

You know what I like about my life, among other things?  People are always like, “Hey, can I send you a free book?” and I’m always like, “Why, yes, you can!”  I have two copies of this one, and I’m jealously guarding one, but I’m giving away the second one.  It’s called Feast Days and Holidays: Living and Celebrating Our Catholic Traditions by Joan Marie Arbogast. Heck, I’ll just tell you what I wrote for the blurb:  “[F]ull of appealing,... Read more

In which I realize that I’m 37 years old and haven’t learned to walk in heels yet, and probably never will, so I decide to pass it off as intelligence for your life.  I think I may be teshing it up TWO notches this time.   Read more