Bye Bye, Stranger Things
Halfway through season two of the Netflix hit series Stranger Things, I made the decision to stop watching. Owing to monstrous laziness, I kept [...]
Mahony at Congress: A Bridge Too Far
Roger Cardinal Mahony is set to speak at the 2019 LA-REC in late March. (That is, the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, [...]
Why am I interviewing Milo Yiannopoulos?
Yiannopoulos may never be your cuppa. I get it. I’m not his PR rep and he doesn’t need my defense anyway. But [...]
Good-bye, Dad
Since the death of my father three months ago, I have re-read parts of A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, the blunt opening line [...]
Here’s How to Make Holy Week Count
Here are some resources that can help us get into the right frame of mind as we approach the Triduum. Each year, [...]
Top 11 Manly Christmas Gifts
As Christmas time draws near, wives and sons, brothers and sisters do flips and twists trying to figure out what to get [...]
Two Cheers for Commercialized Christmas
Every year around two minutes past midnight November 1, when Halloween ends and the malls begin spewing out “Xmas Muzak,” Christians trundle [...]
Pro Sports as Substitute Religion
Man was made to worship. It's in his DNA, so to speak, to reach out towards and even to surrender to a [...]
The HollyChurch Double Standard
Here’s a little thought experiment. Imagine the industry known in shorthand as Hollywood as a kind of parallel Catholic Church. Call it [...]
Off-Centering Prayer
A technique out there purporting to be a form of Christian prayer has made inroads in countless parishes across the US and [...]