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March 2016

March 01, 2016
One of Mark Shea's memorable (if not eloquent) quotes is "Sin Makes You Stupid." It's...

February 2016

February 28, 2016
My essay for Imaginative Conservative this week focuses on Tolkien's driving force of providence behind...
February 26, 2016
You may have seen the clip from Donald Trump's rally where he said he wanted to...
February 23, 2016
I was brought up very strictly in a Christian home. We didn't go to movies....
February 23, 2016
My article for Aleteia this week recommends prayer for politicians. One of the charming things...
February 22, 2016
My blog posts criticizing Trump have elicited some pretty nasty emails from Trump supporters blaming...
February 22, 2016
As a convert you come across some unusual practices within the Catholic faith (said he,...
February 22, 2016
Is history repeating itself in a remarkable and disturbing way? Do you know what happened...
February 20, 2016
I have been astounded to receive emails and FB attacks from Catholics who side with...
February 18, 2016
The Pope pops Trump Trump Dumps Pope. Has it occurred to anyone else that Donald...
February 18, 2016
    My latest blog post at National Catholic Register compares Justice Antonin Scalia to...
February 17, 2016
Over at ChurchPoP they've reprinted one of my old blog posts about miracles. Why then,...
February 17, 2016
View More: Live News|More News Videos A Louisiana priest is going out into the highways...
February 16, 2016
I have to confess, I am fond of conspiracy theories. I like to ponder who...
February 15, 2016
Go here to read my article at National Catholic Register on the price of mercy....
February 15, 2016
Jesus' battle in the wilderness is the battle with the three great temptations: the flesh,...
February 15, 2016
My latest article for Aleteia discusses the need for personal virtue in public life. What...
February 15, 2016
...at Saturday's debate I saw the most horrible Trump moment. It was not his vulgarity,...
February 13, 2016
There are some Catholic  bloggers and commentators saying that it is okay to vote for...
February 13, 2016
My essay for The Imaginative Conservative this week considers Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday and looks at his...
February 13, 2016
Like the Nazgul descending on Middle Earth, the six remaining Republican candidates are here in...
February 12, 2016
Follow my daily (I hope) short readings from Thomas Merton's The Living Bread over at my Suburban Hermit blog...
February 11, 2016
My latest article for CRUX asks what Pope Francis is doing by planning to go...
February 11, 2016
What do you really want? Today's Lent post at the Suburban Hermit makes you think......
February 11, 2016
In today's gospel Jesus says we must take up our cross and follow him. The...
February 11, 2016
Winston Churchill said something like, "If a man is not a socialist in his twenties he...
February 10, 2016
What do you say when presented with the bad example of bad Catholics? My latest...
February 10, 2016
My latest article for National Catholic Register explains why we fast and how our prayer...
February 10, 2016
T.S.Eliot was baptized in 1927 and turned away from a life in the wasteland of...
February 09, 2016
It seems that Jim Gaffigan, Harry Connick Jr. and a host of other stars get...
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