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For our SOCIALIS Saturday event this week, an event where we get to each other better, here is a trivial question that I’ve been dying

For our SOCIALIS Saturday event this week, an event where we get to each other better, here is a trivial question that I’ve been dying

This week, as part of vocations week, I had the pleasure of meeting up with Fr. Jason Vidrine‘s middle school class in Louisiana (via Skype),

The Dec. 15th article on the veil fueled some great discussions in Catholic blogging circles. Father Dwight Longenecker did this follow up post and Deacon

Did you ever wonder how the Catholic Church and the overall culture began to crumble in America? After all, not so long ago, Mass attendance
There is this emotion that every now and then swells up in me and the only word I can think of to describe it is
This past weekend I had a lot to be both grateful for and to reflect on. Usually I use my Saturdays to sit back, relax,

The idea that we have faith in everyday matters is not new. This secular faith is practiced by, well, everybody, since we rely on a

I had been overweight for as long as I can remember. The pictures tell the story. By fourth grade I had chipmunk cheeks and extra

I doubt Mark Driscoll has had the privilege (or good fortune) to meet Wendell Berry. In fact, it would not surprise me if Driscoll had

Feminist. The f-word of femininity. Ok, maybe that’s a little over the top and not exactly true, but stay with me for a second here.
To be honest, I had to look up the word “tribunal” in the dictionary to make sure I knew what it meant. (I did.) I

I had debated about writing this post for a couple of reasons. Partly because part of what I’m going to write about is personal, and

I have the unfortunate luck to be an artist-philosopher since above all it is the artist-philosopher that most often brings my hand to my forehead

Friends, I have good news. We are indeed part of a universal church. During the course of the past month, I have had a number

So what’s new for us this 2012? We probably have made a lot of resolutions and stuff like that! We may be thanking God for

There are times — extremely frustrating times — when our religion is a leap of faith and a walk into the yawning darkness. There are
I know a non-Catholic who has been exposed to the Catholic faith pretty heavily for years, but who still has no interest in becoming a

Less than two weeks ago, my feet touched American soil for the first time since August. After four months of non-stop, Spanish-speaking, purpose-packed, community-focused, Christ-centered

Please share a Christmas blessing and a favorite quote if you’d like. “And an angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory

It may be a commonplace to call our age one that prides itself on freedom from the “miserable dark ages,” from obscurantism, superstition, and perhaps

In our so-called enlightened society of the 21st century, many people keep making the unfortunate mistake of confusing humility for low self esteem, meekness for