CATHOLICISM

Priest of Snark: Why One Young Man Heeded the Call

Isabel Tehan profiles a young man who followed his vocation into a dying profession: the Catholic priesthood.

Sing us a Catholic song in Nigerian tongues

The tune was simple enough, but to pronounce the words with the correct Izzi intonation was grueling.

Lent

What we apparently can't seem to give up

Pater Cornelius

He stayed in this prison till April 1945, when the Russians were about to march into Vienna.

What it is Like to Celebrate Mass

It makes me angry to think of altar boys who found in priests not an inspiring example of sacrificial dedication (as I did), but instead horrible betrayal and abuse.

Things Unseen Primary category in which blog post is published

The Extravagant Inversion of Values

“The bill of sale is on record, and future generations will learn from it that women were articles of traffic in New York, late in the nineteenth century of the Christian religion.”