Housing is an extension of people and of the family, and we can’t ignore the need for more housing simply because we don’t want our neighborhoods to change.
Addison Del Mastro
Addison Del Mastro writes daily about urbanism and cultural history at substack.com/thedeletedscenes.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
When your car causes you to sin: Driving does not encourage us to be our best selves
When we get behind the wheel, it is easy to see other human beings as mere obstacles. We need to acknowledge that driving can distort the moral sense of Catholics and all good people.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
The new Gather hymnal is just good enough — and that’s perfect
You might call it the Walmart of hymnals. It doesn’t drill down into any one category. It doesn’t specialize. But it covers most of the bases that most parishes and parishioners would expect.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Father Ted’ poked fun at Catholic Ireland, but only an audience steeped in faith would appreciate it
“Father Ted” can be seen as both a relic of an Irish moment and a humorous, but serious, argument against the confessional state.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The parish parking lot: Too big and too empty, too much of the time
Supersized suburban churches may have no choice but to pour acres of asphalt but there are still ways to use that land more productively.
Posted inFaith, Music
The real problem with ‘On Eagle’s Wings’
Deep in the ‘Gather’ hymnal is a treasury of distinctly Catholic meaning set to music. We could use a lot of more that.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
What we are missing without world-weary nuns
A nun’s ability to find humor rather than outrage, to remain humble while believing oneself to be in possession of the truth, is something we can use more of in today’s church.