I got into a mini-combox war over at First Things. The article by Daniel Mattson, "Why I Don't Call Myself a Gay Christian," is well worth the read. Take a gander at it first for the context. Here's the skirmish that followed. 7.30.2012 | 8:34am TGWWS says: Oh, oh thank you for this! I've often been [...]
If it is an acknowledged truth that virtue does pay, it is equally true that to become virtuous for the sake of the payment is practically speaking impossible. Indeed, it is worse than impossible: it is dangerous. About a quarter of the way through Anna Karenina, Kitty Shtcherbatsky "falls in like" with another girl. No, they're [...]
A week or two ago I wrote a piece for the Catholic woman’s blog Altcatholicah. I had been supposed to write something for Altcatholicah for a while, but I was running short on time and inspiration both … until I saw a certain exchange in the comment box of a previous piece on Altcatholicah. [...]
Once upon a time yours truly was a heretic. If that word conjures up images of stakes and spiked iron chairs and empire-chinned prelates of dubious heart and Pricean voice, you can stop reading now. I am not the reincarnation of a Spanish dissenter. Nor am I that only slightly less interesting thing, a convert from [...]
So we can put the champagne back in the cupboards. The Individual Mandate is a tax, says Chief Justice John Roberts (though Justice Kennedy apparently disagrees). I feel a bit like Alice in Wonderland. That new kind of Wonderland, in the movie version I wouldn't watch if you paid me to, with The Depp in fright [...]
Admittedly, this is not an explicitely Catholic movie ... but ... just read the review to the end. This name "Mankiewicz" was familiar. I didn't know what he had directed, but I did know I had heard of him before—a good sign, that. The back of the VHS case assured us that we were about to [...]
My Dear Wumpick, So, your patient is going through one of those troughs that the man from Belfast described in his scurrilous, indecent, and, I need hardly add, inaccurate scrawl concerning the tactics we employ for the cause of Our Father Below? I hope she does not know about the troughs, Wumpick? that she has not [...]
CNN poll: Majority of Americans have gay friends, family membersAs my grandfather would say, "Well, Du-uh!" Have they not heard of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon?
I so badly wanted for this to be a good movie. I love fantasy. I'm a fantasy fan who never recovered from the fact that there are only seven Narnia books and only one Lord of the Rings. I tried to cope by reading alternately from Lloyd Alexander, Philip Pullman, and biographies of various Inklings. I [...]
Color me naive, but I cannot understand the furor over the USCCB's continued refusal to place the rubber stamp of their approval on free contraception for all. The issue has been in the news for months now, ever since the HHS first announced that universal health insurance meant universal coverage of contraception. As the conservative blogosphere [...]
