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The Eros of Holy Friendship
Yesterday’s matins reading from Saint Gregory Nazianzen for the feast of two... read more
Hierarchy and Obedience: An American Bishop Who Would...
Who knows what to make of the Holy See’s move to forestall... read more
“The Minutes of Tallow Light”: Resistances of Love...
The upper hand of power would extinguish the victim. From the totalitarian... read more
Trans-Partisanship as Mark of the Spirit: On Viganò...
Reading the tea leaves of clerical power politics is a fool’s game.... read more
Withdrawing from Capital Punishment as Development of a...
A Catholic is no longer free to support recourse to the death... read more
Sexual Obsession: How Not to Celebrate the 50th...
Like kudzu, our ponderous fixation on sex and sexuality overspreads and smothers... read more
Let’s Not Call It Socialism
The economy of grace places under judgment all economic thinking of the... read more
Dawn is Not Day
Salvation takes time. It is not a binary state: saved/unsaved. Though justification... read more
Forever Falling in Love: The Good Life is...
How are we to live? What is the good life? The central... read more
The Trinity and Narcissism: The Good Life is...
Who am I? What constitutes my “self”? An imperative might attend that... read more
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