Don't try to put Jesus on Valium
Valium can be a very useful prescription drug when it is necessary.
Valium can be a very useful prescription drug when it is necessary.
The extraordinary fact of Catholic life in the United States is not the few bishops who humiliate us so bitterly, but the many who do the job so well.
When I first saw the mural of George Floyd with large angel wings, I assumed that it was a satire on his sanctification — effective, perhaps, but not in the best of taste.
Over the years, I have written a number of relatively short essays on various Church feasts.
Pray for an apostolic exhortation that glorifies and lifts up Jesus Christ as the only way to salvation.
In a column a few weeks ago, I called upon the USCCB to drive a stake through the undead heart of the dreadful New American Bible — and the lectionary based upon it.
"Stupidity," says Jacques Maritain, "is always a vice." So are bad taste and slovenly work.
Let it be a reminder to all that, no matter how nouns and adjectives and adverbs are employed, messy thinking is a Grammar of Dissent.
There is a question any Catholic homilist could ask when he looks over almost any congregation.