I am a Catholic
I am a Catholic. As a Catholic in the 21st century I feel an extraordinary pressure to have a well-defined identity, an identity that is easy to label...
Category: things of God
The God That Failed
Our God lies in the tomb this day. He has been cruelly tortured and murdered. His followers, those to whom he had revealed his glory and power througho...
Who do the Irish think they are?
I dislike special treatment. Of course, I like it when I am the recipient of some sort of exceptional coddling, but on principle I have to object to it. And I...
Watching Doubt
It was just over an hour into Doubt (2008) before I caught one. The movie is set in 1964, and the snippets of Mass seem carefully accurate, both in tone and in ...
An image made too real
Two young priests I was in seminary with — and the only identical twin priests I know — have been bravely blogging about their experience of ministerial priesth...