Featured Posts
- My first podcast interview! Leticia Velasquez of Living the Gospel of Life interviewed me. What fun!
- Saul Alinsky On Means and Ends, and the End of Ethics I first read Rules for Radicals in 2008. I was appalled.
- Beauty: Catholic Art vs Iconoclasm Past and Present Some ideas never go away.
- For the thousandth time, we Catholics do NOT worship Mary Oy!
- No, Jesus is NOT an Ascended Master Do NOT get me started.
- Did I ever tell you…I saw a ghost? Well, more than one. And I don’t want to see any more.
- Another version of my conversion story Can one have too many versions of one’s conversion?
- Just an encyclical? and Just an encyclical, oh, yeah? Being a sponsor in a quasi-RCIA program.
- Joseph Campbell was once my hero I still think he’s a marvelous storyteller.
- Why the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary? Because these are the things being denied now in our culture.
- Surrounded by the Libido Dominandi The desire, the lust to dominate others, is everywhere.
- We are in a spiritual war
- We had forgotten about spiritual warfare but we have now been reminded This was written a few years ago but it’s still timely.
Annotated Table of Contents for Blog Series
- A Few Words and Anotha Cuppa Series: rambling rambles by a rambling rambler, wherein I mostly ramble about whatever’s on my mind. Occasional and ongoing.
- Books I Want Right Now Series: The title says it all. Occasional series, ongoing.
- Christian Unity: A series of posts for the Octave of Christian Unity, which will run from January 18-25, 2021.
- “Did I Ever Tell You…?” Series: Sharing some stories about my past, my family’s past, things that have happened to me, and I should write up some stupid things I’ve done (I could fill a gazillion blogs with that one!). Occasional, ongoing.
- Re-Reading the New Age Series: I’m taking another look at the New Age now that I have twenty-four years as a Catholic under my belt. If only I’d known then what I know now… I’m sharing my discoveries and thoughts to help anyone else who may find themselves tempted to surrender to the allure of the false spiritualities and false Christs of the Brave New Age. Current, ongoing.
- The Mass, Salvation and the Sacraments Series: Diagrams on a blackboard provided the spark for this series of posts. I’ll probably post more in this series at some point, don’t know when.
- Something About Mary Every Day in May series: In May 2019, I posted sumpin about the Blessed Virgin Mary almost every day in May. I began it a few days in and missed a couple of days after that, one when I wrote a post for the Ascension instead and I forget why I missed the other one. My mind, missing since 2018. If you come across it anywhere, tell it to come home, I miss it. ;) Series complete.
- The Story of Salvation (Salvation History): New series beginning in January 2021, on Thursdays.
- Weekly Series on the Soul: Exploring Catholic teaching on the soul, from theology to a Thomist look at occult phenomena to works on angels, the four temperaments, videos of Bishop Sheen to Fr. Chad Ripperger to Aquinas 101 from the Thomistic Institute, to New Age dangers to and enemies of the soul–all kinds of stuff in this weekly, ongoing series. Ended (at 50 posts and at the end of 2020), for now.