Where I Blog I can hardly believe that I have been blogging at Standing on My Head for nearly ten years. I got started when we moved to the USA when blogging was a fairly new phenomenon, and I started blogging in order to publish stuff that I wanted to write that wouldn't get [...]
Since I seem to be equally negative about all the candidates, some people have said, "OK, Father. Who would you vote for?" The presidential candidate I would vote for would have these policies: 1. A universal health insurance plan collected at the state level and administered at the county level. 2. A military policy based strictly on self defense. We keep [...]
With Br Augustine Wilmeth OSB in Norcia My article for Aleteia this week is an interview with Br Augustine Wilmeth--a monk of Norcia. I first met Brother Augustine Wilmeth when he was one of the students where I served as chaplain. As a convert, he was intensely interested not only in his new Catholic [...]
Go here to listen to my homily from Our Lady of the Rosary Church on Sunday on why Catholic Education is Crucial...
As always when I comment on politics be clear that I am making observations. I am not endorsing any candidate and I am not telling anyone who they should vote for. Sanders says he is a Socialist, and Catholic social teaching condemns socialism right? Pope Leo XIII most famously condemned socialism in Rerum Novarum, and Pope Pius IX wrote “You [...]
It was intriguing watching the results of the Iowa caucuses come in last evening, and in case any body is biting their nails about a priest writing about politics, take a deep breath. I'm not telling anyone how to vote. I'm not endorsing anyone. I'm writing as an American citizen and making some personal observations. You [...]
My article for Imaginative Conservative this week touches on the whip of the Balrog and how it there is a "sting in the tail" of a modernism that seems to be dying. If Fr. Tomlinson is right that secular modernism in the church has had its day, we must still beware the Balrog’s whip. There is a [...]
Some people wonder about the title of this blog. It comes from a Chesterton quote that "Very often a scene is best seen when it is seen upside down." This excerpt from the foreword of my book The Quest for the Creed explains things a bit further. There are some brave revolutionary souls who stand on their head every [...]
The other day somebody on some blog somewhere went on the attack and junked something I’d written and junked me at the same time. It was a smart, sarcastic attack with no real substance, full of anger, lack of information, false assumptions and personal abuse. Then somebody else pointed me to the article and wanted me [...]
All the innerleckshuls are consternated, frustrated, irritated, annoyed, befuddled, confused and amused by the popularity of the Donald and Bernie show. "Why are they so popular? What is the attraction? How can so many Americans be in love with an unrealistic, pie in the sky socialist on the one hand and a fake tan, fake teeth, [...]