Accept the Mystery or Take the Leap?

This started out as a reply to a reply to a comment I made over at Theology and Justice [which also has this post that I recommend to, well, anyone who’s reading …

It Only Leads If It Bleeds

An exercise in a kind of speculative theological anthropology, what follows is not intended to represent any established doctrine of the Church but rather only the development of my own thought …

Strange Bedfellows II: Citing the Sources

In response to my post, Strange Bedfellows, a new reader commented: “I’m scratching my head. I can only say that your take on Catholicism is very different from that in …

Classifying Catholics

As a break from a much more serious and involved post on sacrifice and the economy of salvation (which is taking longer to articulate than anticipated), I thought I’d get …

Strange Bedfellows

A sentence you’re about to read may strike you as almost scandalously shocking in the context of a blog on Catholicism, so I offer this preparatory caution and beg your forgiving …

A Lesson On Haphazard Commenting

Over on Godless Cranium’s blog, there’s a post that includes the following tale: When someone asked why Christ had to die for our sins, rather than God just simply forgiving …

“I Had One Joke!”

In this post there are no major doctrinal issues at stake, no deeply serious questions of faith or understanding, but rather just one of those odd little things that caught my …

Catholic Social Teaching and Noblesse Oblige

I have a relative, let’s call her “Kimmy,” who recently moved to Texas to pursue a relationship with a man she met online. Now don’t get ahead of me, this …

Freedom & Faith vs. Decadence & Dithering

I suspect this will be a controversial post. Nevertheless, I believe there is a good motivation behind what follows, as it comes from a genuine desire to explore “the moral and spiritual …

Depositum Fidei: A Humble Perspective

If any of us steps back to try to look at the whole of what we call Catholicism today, we should find ourselves dumbstruck by the sheer, absurd immensity of it all. No one can …