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New Liturgy? What New Liturgy?

Here is my article on the anniversary of the new translation of the liturgy from National Catholic Register.

My Dia-blog with Frank Viola

I hesitate to call Frank an “Evangelical” because he says he and Christians like him are “beyond Evangelical”. That resonates because one of my books and my approach to the faith is “More Christianity”. Anyway, I read the book Frank wrote with Leonard Sweet called Jesus A Theography and thought he and I might be able [...]

Materialism, Manicheanism and the Matrix

Do you remember that stylish film The Matrix? The hero, Neo Anderson, exists in a dull, conformist, monotone and monochrome world. Then he wakes up and is “born again” and enters the world of adventure and risk which is the real world. What I find curious about modern American Catholicism is that it is similarly monotone [...]

Todd Unctuous on Papal Twittering

Guest blogger Todd Unctuous is top commentator for MSM. With a degree in Media Studies from Scranton Community College, Todd writes for many papers and websites, and is known for his incisive writing, objective reporting and razor sharp comment. It has been reported that the “Holy Father” the pope in Rome has started to use [...]

The First First Thing

Here is my Tuesday homily at Catholic  Online for the Year of Faith. Instead of preaching on Advent on the Four Last Things of Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell, I thought I’d stand that tradition on its head and present some homilies on the Four First Things: God, Light, Life and Love. Go here.

Preach It Jeremiah!

Someone has commented that I’m echoing Jeremiah in the last few posts. I’m certainly know to do different voices, but I hadn’t thought of Jeremiah, but come to think of it, why not? Jeremiah the prophet is the typical doomsday prophet. Such a rant or lamentation over the wickedness of the world is even called [...]

Wake Up and Smell the Catastrophe

You know the theory that a frog put in a pan of water will stay there as the temperature rises and the poor thing doesn’t sense the increase in temperature and eventually boils to death. The biggest problem with American Catholics is that the majority of them are asleep. Lulled by materialism, the good life [...]

Peeping through the Purple

St Andrew — the Rock Behind the Rock

I have always had a fond attraction to St Andrew. For me he is the rock behind the Rock. He’s the one who brought his more zesty brother Peter to Jesus. I’ve always seen him as the strong, silent, steady type standing behind Peter the leader. I see Peter out front while Andrew is behind [...]

Deliver Us From Successful Catholics

What I mean is “successful” in the world’s terms. Now that I’ve returned to  America after living in the damp lands for twenty five years, one of the things I find most trying is America’s love affair with “success”. I’m not talking about being excellent or being a fulfilled human being or finding what you [...]