The Purpose of Beauty
Like many people, I have a love affair with old churches. I lived in Rome a few years ago, and I am surprised I was at all coherent during that period. The wealth... Read more.
Anything Is Possible
One day years ago, while channel surfing, I came across a news story about a woman who became a man, and had decided to have a child. Because he still had the reproductive... Read more.
My Fist Pumping Pope
I know everyone’s doing it, but I need to talk about the Pope. I don’t want to talk about conspiracy theories. I don’t want to talk about streets running with... Read more.
Sexual Revolevolution
While cycling through my blogroll the other day, I ended up being linked to an an article in The Telegraph. It starts out with quite a bang: A friend’s daughter... Read more.
The long distance relationship
In August of 2011, I was having a long, deep, interesting conversation—the type women often do–about my deal breakers for a dating relationship. No Long Distance... Read more.
Honey, I hate you.
A few weeks before Christmas, as I was working on something across the room from him, my boyfriend decided he was going to get some of his Christmas shopping done... Read more.
Marry that virtuous Atheist!
A few months ago, a girl I know was struggling with the question of whether she, a Catholic, should continue dating her non-Catholic boyfriend. At first it seemed... Read more.
Moments of Silence Amidst Feral Dogs
Last autumn I was in Greece. I spent three months living on the Peloponnese, retreating from the world as I knew it, wandering through olive groves inhabited by... Read more.
Felix Culpa
At the bank a few years back, my friendly teller and I were chatting in the way that sometimes happens when you are about the same age as the person helping you,... Read more.
Feelings: it’s simple.
In many ways we live in an age of “feeling.” If we feel something—anything—we show it, talk about it, dissect it, and take it to our shrinks. This is, apparently,... Read more.