Ten Minutes of Real Pope Dope
“60 Minutes,” one of America’s last remaining bulwarks of the status quo, devoted a full fawning hour to Pope Francis Sunday, between Christmas and New Years. Can this media-canonized pope save the...
View ArticleThe Curator of the Curia Has No Cure
You know things are bad in the West when many people, of many faiths, turn to the head of the patriarchal, corrupt, antediluvian Roman Catholic Church (RCC) for moral guidance. Pope Francis may be a...
View ArticleStagnation Is Not an Option
In astrophysics, as in life, there are generally three views of where things are headed. Let’s call them evolution, entropy or enervation. In other words, better, worse or the same. The majority of...
View ArticleThe Sacred Is Not Personal
Though I was brutally raised Catholic at a time when children were forced to attend Mass in Latin six days a week (five before school and once on Sunday), I no longer have an ax to grind with the...
View ArticleRethinking and Re-Feeling Jesus
I like Christmas lights and snowy nights as much as the next person. But the foo-foo of the fictional baby Jesus has nothing to do with the real teacher and his mission. Raised severely Catholic but...
View ArticleExperience Is the Enemy
Below my feet, after days of heavy rain, the little creek on the periphery of town is like a gray-green animal surging ferociously and relentlessly forward. Above my head, as the wind blows hard from...
View ArticleCreation, Love, Death and God Are One
Like millions of others in the global village, I tuned out the hyped royal wedding. But after the pomp and ceremony was over, excerpts from the sermon by the Most Rev. Michael Curry caught my eye. The...
View ArticleWe’re All Potentially People of God
I’m what is called a “lapsed Catholic.” But it is the Roman Catholic Church that has lapsed into irretrievable corruption. Then again, was it not corrupted from its inception? The Pennsylvania Supreme...
View ArticlePure Apostasy?
As most adults know, Christmas is a fabricated celebration of the birth of Jesus, made up long ago to coincide with ancient festivals held on the winter solstice. Jesus, scholars think, was born in...
View ArticleA Belated Easter Column
What’s wrong with this sentence? Not grammatically, but spiritually and philosophically. “In future clashes between East Coast progressives and West Coast techno-libertarians, let them clash as...
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