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June 2017

June 21, 2017
What is the relationship between American Christians and conspiracy theories anyway?
June 13, 2017
Would that my prayer life were not so tumultuous. All too often I oscillate between...
June 12, 2017
I made the last-chance Mass, as I believe they call it. I wandered in around...
June 08, 2017
Catholic readers found an ally in Marx because he was interested in many of the...
June 07, 2017
Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia—these days a common thing. My father re-watches Smokey and the Bandit, pining...
June 06, 2017
There’s been a good deal of talk about the Pro-Life Movement recently, specifically how it...

May 2017

May 25, 2017
Refusing to say we “know” the time is central to Christianity.
May 19, 2017
I did not think Donald Trump would be impeached; in a way, I still don’t....
May 18, 2017
“Anarchy,” a scary word to many, doesn’t get much used in Catholic circles. It seems...
May 17, 2017
Job confounds. A book in which God allows “the satan” to overwhelm a righteous man,...
May 16, 2017
As a man who has quite literally left the Catholic Church, it’s hard to imagine...
May 11, 2017
Everything, absolutely everything, you consider important, all the goods to which you lay claim—it’s all...
May 10, 2017
In my own conversion, Catholicism was attractive precisely because it provided guidance; it made sense...
May 09, 2017
During my senior year of college, I took over our campus’s right-leaning paper, The Fenwick...
May 08, 2017
Will we read him with suspicion, or shall we honor him in love?

April 2017

April 04, 2017
“Hail Muse! et cetera.” – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS “Yeah them my...
April 02, 2017
The title is patently false; let’s get that out of the way. I’ve used it...

March 2017

March 31, 2017
When you tell a lie, you keep it as simple as possible (not, of course,...
March 30, 2017
The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and...
March 29, 2017
From Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy to the myriad works on self-help today, consolation is taken...
March 28, 2017
There’s a song from a show from my youth, Hey Arnold, called “The Simple Things.”...
March 27, 2017
I am thankful for Pope Francis’ deep faith and joyous persona, for the hope he...
March 13, 2017
It’s not uncommon, when you’re someone interested in “social justice,” to have this pericope thrown...
March 12, 2017
Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last. (Matthew 20:16) A...
March 03, 2017
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, etc. I have the pleasure of taking part in...
March 01, 2017
When I first began practicing the Faith (poorly), I printed out some Bible verses during...

February 2017

February 28, 2017
Lent, East and West, begins with a supposition: we are broken beings in need of...
February 26, 2017
Last night the deacon’s homily emphasized the reciprocal nature of forgiveness: we forgive so that...
February 25, 2017
Not the Eucharist. I recall being in third grade, given an assignment to visualize the...
February 22, 2017
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does...
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