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November 2014

November 20, 2014
Part of being a Catholic is to live in the past in the present. What...
November 20, 2014
My article for Aleteia this week asks whether conservative Benedict XVI appointed bishops are out...
November 20, 2014
One of the strengths and weaknesses of the internet age is that people write to...
November 14, 2014
What is it in me that likes the difficult sayings of Jesus more than the...
November 14, 2014
A friend of mine once exclaimed, "Oh, the vulnerability of beauty in a world of...
November 13, 2014
Mother Cabrini was frail and tiny of body but strong of soul. Read about her...
November 13, 2014
It's a typical Christian bromide: "Hate the sin. Love the sinner." The problem is--how do...
November 12, 2014
Here is an article/interview on marriage for Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs:...
November 12, 2014
Here is a debate between Mary and Jerry about women priests. Mary and Jerry are not real people. MARY:...
November 11, 2014
In re-reading C.S.Lewis' wonderful  sermon The Weight of Glory he begins with comments on the nature of...

October 2014

October 31, 2014
Guest blogger Mantilla Amontillado is the founder of Veritas Vestments. She holds a degree in...
October 30, 2014
Margery Eagan, the spirituality columnist at Boston Globe's CRUX website poses a question about homosexuality...
October 29, 2014
True story: here in the Bible Belt a young Baptist high school kid goes into...
October 29, 2014
Are all evil spirits demonic? I don't think so, and here's why: From time to...
October 29, 2014
I've worn out the keyboard on my laptop. Honestly. The keys don't respond. Maybe my...
October 27, 2014
Fr George Rutler has a clever and rollicking essay here at Crisis Magazine in which...
October 27, 2014
The Synod fathers this month were trying to address a real crisis in the human...
October 27, 2014
Readers of this blog have been following the progress of an exciting new church building...
October 25, 2014
Guest blogger, Duane Mandible is a contributing editor to The Truth Hurts, a bi-monthly journal of...
October 25, 2014
When I arrived at Our Lady of the Rosary parish one of my first tasks...
October 25, 2014
I read a smart comment yesterday: "Conservatives want to convert people by arguing with them....
October 23, 2014
I'm not too concerned about getting the Catholic religion up to date for people. That's...
October 22, 2014
The buzz word in the synod this month, and in the general discussion about homosexuals...
October 21, 2014
Flora Harper joins the stable of Standing on My Head's famous guest bloggers. Flora writes the Spirituality...
October 21, 2014
Some Catholics are unhappy with Pope Francis. Conservatives read his closing speech to the Synod...
October 20, 2014
…is like playing tennis without a net. It results in a certain formlessness, the reduction...
October 19, 2014
What is most frustrating in reading the media mutterings about the synod is the superficial...
October 19, 2014
Guest blogger Todd Unctuous is top commentator for MSM. With a degree in Media Studies...
October 18, 2014
Here are excerpts from the Pope's final address to the synod with my observations in red....
October 18, 2014
What good has come from all the bishops boxing--all the wrangling in Rome? Now that...
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