Keep the Children at Home
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.
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.
In 2013, Pope Francis sonorously and rightly enjoined the bishops of the world: "Avoid the scandal of being 'airport bishops'!"
Greg Bottaro was a student of mine at Boston College. He was a very good student, but even very good students seldom write very good books. He did.