Bilgrimage

As a follow-up to what I posted yesterday about how the aberrant Mass-as-theater theology of many Catholics is asserting itself all ...

If I were a young person seeking a church home for myself, why would I EVER want to consider a church in which

At a Catholic funeral for a parent, is it normal or usual to print at the bottom of the funeral program that anyone not in communion w...

Was she denied Communion because she’d been chewing gum — or because she’s transgender? https://t.co/cm8rjukgYx — 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻...

I see connections galore between these good articles I've read in the past few days. Do you, too, I wonder? Laura Donlon , ...

I wrote yesterday that while the men in Rome are nattering on about mercy and fashioning a church that's a field hospital for th...

This is one of the stinky sort of Catholic birdcage droppings: in a discussion of Michael Sean Winters's article "Pope Fran...

I get the feeling that the leader of the U.S. Catholic bishops, Cardinal Dolan, may not have been taught much about manners as he w...

As the anniversary of German theologian Dietrich Bonhöffer's execution by the Nazi regime passes (it was on 9 April), I think of ...

My first posting this morning spoke of the heart pain I experience right now as I see a church I chose in the 1960s because its we...

After I blogged about the welcome table this past Sunday, I began doing a bit of online reading.   The Mountain Dulcimer Noter and Dro...

Lines overheard in a Vietnamese restaurant in St. Paul:

As I flounder in the wilderness, words that are signposts for me (I choose the word "flounder" instead of "wander...

This past week, Archbishop Peter Sartain, the man appointed by Rome to oversee American religious women, who have been charged with failu...

Writing in response to an article by Jerry Filteau at National Catholic Reporter  noting the recent suspension of Father Marcel Guarniz...

Two very good recent theological reflections on the denial of the eucharist to Barbara Johnson at her mother's funeral, both wit...

A footnote to my posting two days ago about Father Marcel Guarnizo's denial of communion to Barbara Johnson at her mother's ...

Building on the excerpt I posted yesterday from Jamie Manson's recent keynote address at the Call to Action gathering , I want to ...

After writing today about Joe Paterno, and writing constantly about the Catholic bishops in recent days, I feel a sharp need for spir...

Centrism is, to my perception, all about being on the winning side .  And one of the reasons I grow increasingly impatient with the c...