Blithe Spirit Weekly

"We pray," the reader says at holy mass. For the end of the world, vote-stealing, political corruption? For God's "loving embrace”? Russell Shaw's American Church. What would John the Baptist say?

New version of Mass, in priest's own words as of Feb 10, 2011, when the mass as head trip was already living rent-free in the worshiper's mind, a flea-bitten space . . .

Words matter!!

St. Sabina’s Michael Pfleger, "a man on fire" in 2011. A page in Windy City Catholicism of a story unfolding even as we speak . . .

My night at the Trump rally, March 11, 2016

When mass attendance became a head trip part 3

When mass attendance became a head trip part 2

When mass attendance became a head trip

Multiculturalism. Dinesh D'Souza. Saul Bellow. Bishop Bartolomeo Las Casas. Mario Vargas Llosa. Carlos Fuentes. Claude Levi-Strauss.

Attending mass if you can'take it any more. Advice in how to make it through with a minimum of distractions. And why are we at mass in the first place?

Deconstructionism. Sophistry. Language games. Cognitive atheism. Chaos in the domain of values. Revolution in the text. Telling some people to shut up.

Cultural studies. Textual analysis. Liza Minnelli. Structuralist. Poststructuralist. Postmodernist. Postcolonialist. Inductive method. Theoretical abyss. Aphorism. Aztecs. Clever dudes.