Down that Road
One might have wondered why I am not blogging much these days. This will only be my second post in August. Busy, I guess. But writing (that is not financial remunerated) is inspiration-based and no one...
View ArticleMy Crazy Women
Most of my friends live within 6 or 7 kms of me. Some of these are ladies. Wonderful, funderful ladies. Luckily for me, I like their husbands too, their wonderful, funderful husbands. I have long...
View ArticleIt Does Affect Me?
I have written a lot recently about the false sense of community Catholics unconsciously adopt from the secular world, and it adopts from us too. First of all, there is no community in the Medieval or...
View ArticleThe Problem with Movies Today, or the Problem with Me
Went to see Jurassic World yesterday. It was okay. Not worth the $ billion it has already made. And then there will be the next Avengers movie that’ll make a $ billion too. And it won’t deserve it...
View ArticleA Real Connection
Long peculating in my thought-sphere (aka my head), is the way secular people do charity. There’s lots I can say about it, but I want to focus on one unfortunate aspect: the distance factor.I was...
View ArticleGay Makes me Feel Better about my Shitty Situation
I don’t usually use language of this nature, but perhaps it is justified by the punch it conveys.When you think of those who support homosexual “marriage” most of all, it’s the young. And, of course,...
View ArticleThe Normal Associated with Gay Marriage
“Stacey, your father and I don’t want you to see that boy again. His neck is too short.” “But mom!”Big news about gay “marriage” today, if you think that what Caesar thinks is important, if you still...
View ArticleGraphic Aids for the Slow-Witted
Much controversy has been raised re. my latest post and an incidental comment I made re. the legitimacy of not dressing up for Sunday mass.Some people thought I said it was wrong to dress up.Some...
View ArticleConversion… to What?
The other day I expressed some of my cynicism regarding the capacity of people to believe. Remember, faith is one of the “theological virtues,” and, as such, a grace rather than a virtue in the...
View ArticleHow I Think about Changes of Mind
The other day a friend was telling me about the 20-60-20 rule. Their point was that 20 percent of your ‘people’ will be on board with your program big time, 20 dead-set against it, and 60 can be swayed...
View ArticleAn Unexpected Scale
No, I’m not talking about the one in my bathroom that never forgives me for my late-night cheese-binges.I mean a scale of the interpersonal kind, the sociological kind.not this kind.this kind.I grew up...
View ArticleMy Thirty-Seven Minute Struggle
My Thirty-Seven Minute Struggle with Interstellar.I love sci-fi. One of my brothers’ and my favorite memories is of our dad taking us to science-fiction movies. Those are the only ones he ever took us...
View ArticleThe Good Things about Dieting
Yes, dieting is hard. It is a First World problem that we all have to deal to some degree. But I have discovered that there is an ‘up side’ to it as well.1. You save a lot of money.2. The food you do...
View ArticleGeneralizations about Gender
Blah, blah, blah, crisis, blah.Like a good Marxist, I look to the material causes for our cultural features.Like a good Christian, I ask whether these lead us closer to or further away from...
View ArticleTwenty Years a Bishop
My long-time friend, my spiritual father, my supporter and inspiration, Archbishop Prendergast, had his twentieth anniversary yesterday as a bishop. Since we were both attending the Summit on the New...
View ArticleI'm a dreamer. Hate me if you must.
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View ArticleReligion and Violence, A Few Thoughts
Just because my cousin was talking about it after I got mad at someone posting “no religions are violent, it’s what you bring to them” nonsense.1. Violence is not bad.People use the word to mean bad....
View ArticleThe State of Catholic Literature Today
The subject of Catholic books is funny, because Catholics are funny. What do I mean? What do we have in common, outside the mass and the ideals we hold? Not a whole lot. Or, not a whole lot that is...
View ArticleCrimes Against My Brother
Written by David Adams Richards (Doubleday Canada, 2014), 401 pages. Reviewed by Meredith Gillis * This review first appeared in our Summer 2014 issue. This is the first book by this well-known author...
View ArticleThe Rest of the Movie
Okay, the rest of Interstellar was better than I had anticipated.The best thing about it was how quickly they got to space. Unlike a movie like Armageddon that spends like three-quarters of its time...
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