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Over the course of my lifetime Lenten observance, I've tried all the tacks.  The Standard -- when I was 14, I gave up soda, which led...

Mark Shea wades into the recent controversy about Cardinal Marx's suggestion that perhaps the Church may in certain individual cases co...

photo by Evan Laurence Bench There are plenty of memes that want to know all about your book history and your all-time greats and yo...

As Helen unwrapped her solitary dinner from brown paper as greasy as the smile of the man who had taken her order the stale smell of half-co...

I didn't realize until I went back to look for it how long ago it was I wrote my Reader Madness post about my struggling reader, or how...

Back at the apartment, the important people gathered to congratulate him. "What a night for you, Gillespie," said Johnson from M...

I was provided with a review copy of Black Bottle Man , by Craig Russell (2010, Great Plains Teen Fiction.) Perhaps you're familiar wi...

It's quiet around the house at the moment. It's also a few minutes before midnight. That's when it gets quiet, which makes it ...

There are little gifts that God gives you, touches of humility that remind you that only his grace suffices. One of these, for me, is being...

A note on the "No True Scotsman" fallacy: This fallacy consists of making an assertion about a group such as "No Scotsman ...

We wrote previously about NFP and Church Authority and also about NFP and Truth . In this final post in the series, we'd like to ta...

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a piece from the archives about how our house links us with the Freedom Riders. The previous owne...

When we read today's gospel about Jesus healing the leper and asking him not to tell anyone about it, the kids and I discussed how Jesu...

There's a piece in the Washington Post by Elizabeth Bruenig arguing against the idea of increasing work requirements for federal welfare...

It was a short Advent this year, only 22 days, but Christmas didn't seem to come too soon. I was ready for Christmas, joyful and expecta...