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December 31, 2014
I Have a Confession to Make
The Confession by Guiseppe Molteni I have a confession to make. Years ago, before I...
December 24, 2014
Christ Child (A Poem for Christmas)
Nativity with Saints Francis & Lawrence by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio --------- Christ Child Did...
December 22, 2014
Why Stories Trump Statements
Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me by Fritz von Uhde "A story is a...
December 16, 2014
On Thomas Merton & Being Your Brother’s Keeper
The First Mourning by William-Adolphe Bouguereau Then the Lord asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"...
December 07, 2014
The Wisdom of Dickens’ Second Ghost
As the second Advent candle is lit and the days are advancing to Christmas,...
November 2014
November 30, 2014
“One Day, Not Far Off ” – Advent & Liberation
"Christians used the word 'advent' to express their relationship with Jesus Christ: Jesus is the...
November 26, 2014
Ferguson, Martin Luther King, Jr. & Being Honest About Protest
It's late - very late. It is the second night of protests in Ferguson, Missouri. It...
November 24, 2014
The Pope, Conscience & the Clattering Train
It was April, 1935. And Winston Churchill, a lowly Member of the British Parliament, was...
November 13, 2014
First Reconciliation & An Encounter with “An Absolute Beauty”
I'd never been to a retreat like this. This would be my first. I guess...
November 07, 2014
On Flannery O’Connor, Brittany Maynard & the Eclipsing of God
It was 1951 and she was much too young to be so sick. Much too...
October 2014
October 30, 2014
When Ebola, Public Health & Politics Collide
"We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult,...
October 25, 2014
On Ebola, Uncertainty & Imperfection
We crowded into a small room at my internal medicine clinic and looked at each...
October 23, 2014
Hilaire Belloc’s “The Four Men” – The First Day (On Hearing the Journey’s Call)
"The Four Men is the greatest of books." - Fr. James Schall "Read anything of...
October 19, 2014
What a Catholic Can Learn From Orwell, Churchill & Bruce Springsteen
Recently, on my Instagram account (catholic thinker), I posted a quote by George Orwell that...
October 14, 2014
Six Words That Explain The Catholic View of Death
Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Remembering the Dead:...
October 08, 2014
Churchill, Chamberlain & Why Leadership Matters
Recently, thanks to Elizabeth Scalia's piece on Winston Churchill, I got to thinking. Leadership really...
September 2014
September 29, 2014
The Conversion of Evelyn Waugh & the Fine Art of Keeping One’s Head
"The trouble about the world today is that there's not enough religion in it. There's...
September 25, 2014
How the News Tried To Make Me a Cynic…and Failed
"It is better to light a candle to than to curse the darkness." - Anonymous...
September 18, 2014
Are You Fair to the Catholic Church? (An Invitation to “Recovering Catholics”)
It happened one night years ago at the local Lutheran church. I should have seen...
September 11, 2014
Narcissus, My iPhone & Me
“If ever he knows himself, he surely dies.” - Blind seer Tiresias to Narcissus' mother,...
September 07, 2014
On Being Healed By My Children
Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the...
August 2014
August 25, 2014
On Suffering, St. Bartholomew & the Murder of James Foley
St. Bartholomew by Rembrandt van Rijn Perhaps it is time for us to reflect...
August 19, 2014
ISIS, Evil & the Crisis of Moral Relativism
Lucifer by Gustave Dore (Dante's Inferno) "The finest trick of the devil is to persuade...
August 12, 2014
Explaining Robin Williams
Robin Williams is dead. And I still can't believe it. As a five year old...
August 10, 2014
Toppling ISIS & the Tyranny of Guilt
"But what we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has...
August 07, 2014
On ISIS and the Fearsome Rhyming of History
“History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes.” - Mark Twain It had been...
August 03, 2014
What the Pope Said About World War I
"Sad experience proves that human authority fails where religion is set aside." - Pope...
August 01, 2014
On Hope and Bitter Tragedy
Today, I learned of a terrible tragedy. It didn't happen to me, but to dear...
July 2014
July 26, 2014
ISIS, President Obama & One Simple Truth
If you haven't heard the name ISIS (also known as Islamic State of Iraq...
July 20, 2014
On Becoming & Unbecoming a Cynic
I'm tired of cynicism. Now, to be clear, I am not speaking specifically of...
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