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Aristotle's Doubt and the Glory of Christian Friendship

Aristotle thought deeply about friendship. I am, of course, aware that this statement seems as astonishing as declaring that the sun rose this morning…

Jun 13 •

100 Pop Songs Every Catholic Should Hear #3 "The War Was In Color" by Carbon Leaf

Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord. D-Day. It may very well be the last major D-Day commemoration that will include Allied…

Jun 7 •

April 2024

Totality or Nothing

Exciting note: this article is also published at National Catholic Register (https://www.ncregister.com/blog/solar-eclipse-totality-or-nothing) which…

Apr 11 •

HMS Birkenhead and the Embers of Virtue

You have almost certainly never heard of Margaret Seton. Her name doesn’t appear in any history books. She now rests in a grave in her native Scotland…

Apr 4 •

March 2024

“Pilate was amazed that he was already dead.”

Mar 30 •

Daring? Do. Manly emotion reconsidered.

Men are so emotional. You can go ahead and reread that sentence again; I’ll wait.

Mar 25 •

Routine Sanctity

When I was six or seven, I read and re-read our family’s old beat up copy of “Butler’s Lives of the Saints.” I was endlessly fascinated by the…

Mar 23 •

February 2024

100 Pop Songs Every Catholic Should Hear #2 "The Graveyard Near the House" by The Airborne Toxic Event

Ash Wednesday falls on Valentine’s day this year, a fairly rare occurrence. In fact, it will only happen one more time in our lifetime, in 2029. After…

Feb 13 •

January 2024

100 Pop Songs Every Catholic Should Hear #1 "What Other People Say" by Demi Lovato

I’m starting a new series of posts today on Between the Paws. "100 Pop Songs Every Catholic Should Hear.” I’ll save the “rules” for how I’m choosing…

Jan 30 •

Once, several years ago, I read, “One day, you will pick up your child for the last time.” I think it’s one of the saddest sentences I’ve ever read…

Jan 12 •

November 2023

Can you believe all of this?

Truth Exists. The Incarnation Happened.

Nov 29, 2023 •

Keep Looking: The 60th anniversary of the death of C.S. Lewis

If you become a writer you’ll be trying to describe the thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of books, one or two sentences, just for a…

Nov 22, 2023 •

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