The Very Catholic Identity

The Very Catholic Identity

A century ago, if you had asked the random person on the street whether a man who occasionally referenced his rosary or was said by his representative to attend Mass “most Sundays” was “very Catholic,” you’d have been laughed at. After all, didn’t Irish-Americans come...
Chip of the Beast

Chip of the Beast

Allow me to introduce my new character, Southern belle aristocrat, Miss Tequila Mockingbird. She’s been on my mind a long time, representing a certain type of personality I’ve become very accustomed to in the American South: a gnostic pseudointellectual armed with...
Paten Pending

Paten Pending

So long as we’re talking about patens, what do you think: should we bring them back during Communion? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Life Lessons in Child Loss

Life Lessons in Child Loss

Trigger warning: child loss. Eleven months ago today, my family suffered the unspeakable tragedy of losing our 6th child, Margaret, to Down Syndrome. What we expected to be the joyous birth of — by all accounts — our healthy baby girl was in an instant turned into the...