Reading through the Gospel of Mark for Lent, a priest led me to enter more deeply into the scene in which Jesus calls...
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The Bishops Should Have Consulted Jennifer Lawrence When Making Their Immigration Video
Reading through my son’s high school history book, I came across a quote from John Carroll, the first bishop of the...
People Lied and Charlie Kirk Died
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, I had...
Dumb at Literature
In high school and college, I used to feel so stupid studying literature because I never saw the imagery within it on my own. When I read the assigned books, I would usually think, ‘that was a pretty good book’, but that was where it ended for...
I Am No Longer Against Fox Hunts
My exposure to fox hunting was entirely via television and, in particular, the movie Mary Poppins. Like most children who saw that movie, I was greatly distressed for the poor,...
Fending Off Cougars in the Age of Divorce
I have a bunch of kids and I homeschool and I pretend to be a writer so I stay busy. Ipso facto, the age of divorce kind of snuck up on me. Having lived some life, I knew a...
How Am I to Love Neighbors Such as These?
One Saturday morning, I came upon a collage of pictures of smiling men in striped jump suits in my social media feed. There was such joy in the pictures! My heart was...
25 January 2025 – What Squirrels do in Winter, How Many Miles is a League, How Much of Spain had been Conquered, the Butchering Bird
My son asked me why there were squirrels everywhere despite the frigid temperatures. "Don't they hibernate?" He'd seen it on SpongeBob so it must be so. We found out that some squirrels do hibernate, but many don't. Which is why they spend all summer hiding food away....
Election Season and the Maccabean Revolt
Maybe the world isn’t run by lizard people per se, but lately, I can certainly see what Saint John meant when he said “the whole world is in the power of the Evil One.” (1 John 5:19)...
Book Review: Babbitt
by: Sinclair Lewis Babbit was written in the 1920s by Sinclair Lewis who was a socialist. Normally, a socialist's commentary on American culture from the 1920s wouldn't interest me, but this book is part of the literature curriculum of a Catholic homeschool I...
The Children’s Mass
There were a lot of babies and children at Mass. Their sounds filled the air. There was crying, laughing, burbling, shouting, loud whispering and the pitter-patter of little feet running to the bathroom or escaping the pew and running from their...
Book Review: Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley This was another book on Joseph Pearce’s "100 Works of Literature Every Catholic Should Read" list. In the beginning, it felt a bit melodramatic, particularly the male characters and especially Victor Frankenstein. I kept thinking someone...