Ordination Day
Today I received an invitation to my ordination. Not really, of course. I just celebrated my second wedding anniversary, my wife and I are happily ra...
Author: Aldean
I could not write on an island
I need an audience to be able to write. This is a fact that I sometimes try to change, or ignore, but it is a fact that doesn’t allow itself to be changed or...
The passion is gone
I have officially lost it. Five years ago, when I first began this job, I used to love being a bookseller. And even now, with my recent bitterness tow...
Trying to explain the Liturgy Wars
As I begin to elaborate in writing on my experience of twenty-seven years of Catholicism, it is increasingly clear to me that Church politics are al...
Pondering new directions for writing
I am writing again. I can’t express how excited I am about this. These entries are not as regular as I would like, but that will change. Nor are they as in ...