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 …

The Supper of the Lamb

As an unbaptized convert awaiting a declaration of nullity from the Tribunal for a civil marriage, I am explicitly not called to the table of the Lord. Though I participate …

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 …

Fiat Voluntas Tua

Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Of the Seven Petitions in the Our Father, it this …

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 …

“Amen, amen, I say to you…”

When I say “amen” at the end of a prayer, what am I really saying?

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 …