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...
Tag: Catholicism
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...
Radicalized
Three months ago, if someone had told me I would get all fired up about liturgy in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, I would have had to give them a wry sm...
A new pope, a (re)new(ed) self
Habemus papam! How excited I was to hear those words! I held my infant son in my arms, standing excitedly before the television, watching that uppe...