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April 2016

April 12, 2016
I am not a theologian, nor do I play one on the internet. I am...
April 11, 2016
Because, as soon as I draw on the language that beautifies, I am pretending that...
April 09, 2016
I dared to think, and to see Mary as a woman who thought, who contemplated,...
April 07, 2016
An article from Crisis, entitled "The Misguided Compassion of Social Justice Catholics," by Dana R....
April 06, 2016
Perhaps God does indeed work mysteriously through the turmoil of history, but the divinely comedic...
April 03, 2016
Training in sexual responsibility should not draw lines around most of humanity and signal with...
April 01, 2016
we see the resurrected Christ make his appearance first to a woman, Mary Magdalene, and...

March 2016

March 31, 2016
The most effective way of ending abortion, I believe, lies in working tirelessly to end...
March 30, 2016
Breastfeeding is a moral issue, yes, but the moral responsibility lies with the society that...
March 28, 2016
In the "Dear Padre" piece on the back of our church bulletin this past Easter...
March 28, 2016
During this Easter season, I implore my fellow Christians to extend hands in friendship to...
March 26, 2016
“Dreamt that my little baby came to life again; that it had only been cold,...
March 25, 2016
This nothingness, this emptiness, is sometimes worse than the passion of grief or the melancholy...
March 25, 2016
Good Friday suffering happens in the moment of profound darkness when it is impossible to...
March 24, 2016
Depictions of the life of Jesus, in film, vacillate between the sentimental and the gory....
March 22, 2016
Nature is violent, but innocent. And it can't be a basis for ethics.
March 21, 2016
It's a shame that the veneration of Mary often is embroidered with a subtle rhetoric...
March 18, 2016
  We are taught from early on how to be women. And then, at some...
March 17, 2016
"He was a creature of his time." Thus we excuse past slave-owners, war criminals, and...
March 16, 2016
One common criticism of public assistance or government welfare programs, that they are poorly managed,...
March 14, 2016
"It takes a village." Why do people frown on this idea, as though it were...
March 11, 2016
There are forms of piety that turn away from all things dirty or disgusting, emphasizing...
March 10, 2016
And why are we so accepting of the idea that men are reducible to tools...
March 09, 2016
  The topic of victimhood came up yesterday in two entirely separate groups devoted to...
March 08, 2016
(image credit: pixabay) There's been a lot of talk about intersectionality lately, not only in...
March 07, 2016
  “Moreover, friendship would seem to hold cities together, and legislators would seem to be...
March 05, 2016
Have you heard about this controversial writer? A political exile and vocal critic of several...
March 04, 2016
But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king...
March 03, 2016
Earlier I discussed gender bias in voting. Yes, it exists, but there's a latent hypocrisy...
March 03, 2016
I would love to have a woman for president, but am not supporting Hillary Clinton....
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