Bilgrimage

In response to Elliott Darrow's poem "God Is Gay," which I posted (in video format) yesterday, Barbara makes a good p...

Bishop William Lori and Confreres, Religious Liberty Hearing, Feb. 2012 With a bow to  Sr. Maureen Fiedler at National Catholic Repor...

One of the noteworthy aftershock effects of the unthinkable massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, has been to cast a spotlight on a natio...

Today's the 11th anniversary of my mother's death.  She died four days after 9/11 in 2001.  

Sr. Teresa Forcades, OSB At his Queering the Church blog , Terry Weldon presents excerpts from an interview at Iglesia Descalza wi...

Cynthia-Marie O'Brien at Killing the Buddha  writing as a Catholic woman alienated from the church but keenly searching for encount...

Last December, I posted here a few remarks about the death of Christopher Hitchens in which I stated, 

Cardinal Walter Brandmüller In the German paper Spiegel , Frank Hornig, Anna Loll, Ulrich Schwarz, and Peter Wensierski report that ...

Paula Cooey has published  a thought-provoking article at Religion Dispatches about the push for theological questions following the Hai...

Maybe it’s because we’re in the dark of the moon, when spirits are often depressed. I don’t know. What I do know is that I find myself m...

This Earth Day meditation is a day late. But since the topic doesn't cease to be topical, I want to post today, in celebration of Eart...

The Deity (aka the Old White Man in the Clouds™, aka God) has been mighty busy of late. God a'mighty busy. Talking to His appointed or...

Some of my earliest sharp memories date from when I was three years old. We lived at the time in Mississippi—Columbus, Mississippi. I rem...

I don’t know what happened yesterday in Little Rock. Of course, I know the bare bones of the story: two men are now dead, after a scenario ...

People talk about God as though doing so is easy, self-evident. I talk about God that way. But here’s the problem. To communicate...