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February 2019

February 11, 2019
If the problem is clericalism, what is the solution? It is axiomatic that vices cannot...

January 2019

January 20, 2019
January 18 to 25 is the annual international Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Christians...
January 03, 2019
Yesterday’s matins reading from Saint Gregory Nazianzen for the feast of two of the Cappadocian...

December 2018

December 01, 2018
The final readings of the liturgical year reveal that the Tree of Life produces fruit...

November 2018

November 26, 2018
Ohio is expected to pass soon, even over the veto of Gov. Kasich, a prohibition...
November 14, 2018
Who knows what to make of the Holy See’s move to forestall the American bishops’...
November 01, 2018
The Bishops aren’t going to save the Church. That was clear to me as I...

September 2018

September 24, 2018
“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow...
September 17, 2018
Moral imagination can be as important to training the conscience as logic, and probably more...
September 14, 2018
Collect: O God, who willed that your Only Begotten Son should undergo the Cross to...
September 08, 2018
The upper hand of power would extinguish the victim. From the totalitarian night of occupied...

August 2018

August 28, 2018
Reading the tea leaves of clerical power politics is a fool’s game. And here we...
August 20, 2018
Pope Francis has now issued a letter in response to the recent heart-wrenching revelations regarding...
August 15, 2018
God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen...
August 09, 2018
These are disturbing and disorienting times for Catholics. Who can show us the way to...
August 03, 2018
A Catholic is no longer free to support recourse to the death penalty. In revising...

July 2018

July 26, 2018
Like kudzu, our ponderous fixation on sex and sexuality overspreads and smothers the public square...
July 19, 2018
This little saying was shared recently on the Facebook page of a parish that shall...
July 06, 2018
The junior priest who is an excellent homilist, singer, and confessor was transferred to another...
July 04, 2018
“Look, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being delivered into...
July 02, 2018
The economy of grace places under judgment all economic thinking of the sort, “This is...

June 2018

June 08, 2018
Salvation takes time. It is not a binary state: saved Though justification does in fact...
June 03, 2018
This great Feast of Corpus Christi falls just a couple of days after my brief...
June 01, 2018
How are we to live? What is the good life? The central question of philosophy....

May 2018

May 31, 2018
Who am I? What constitutes my “self”? An imperative might attend that interrogative: Find Yourself....
May 26, 2018
These are Pentecostal days, days of conflagration. That might come across as ominous. Is and...
May 20, 2018
Happy Pentecost to you all! This great feast shakes us awake to the cosmic scale...
May 19, 2018
Love one another, with a love so limitlessness it is divine. That is the one...
May 16, 2018
Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they...
May 12, 2018
“Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.” – Mark 16:15...
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