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June 2016

June 18, 2016
Many of us know the Catechism, but to live the faith, that is different, that...
June 13, 2016
About a week ago I chose to take a temporary break from social media, mostly...
June 12, 2016
  Like most people I woke up today to horrific news: the murder of more...
June 11, 2016
There was a time when I considered becoming Eastern Orthodox. The richness of the theology,...
June 02, 2016
My last two posts (available here and here) have attempted defenses of the current pontiff....

May 2016

May 31, 2016
History is repetition; all that happens has happened and will happen. So says Qoheleth: All...
May 30, 2016
Pope Francis—pontifex maximus of cheap grace and haphazard forgiveness, the kind of bishop who would’ve...
May 24, 2016
Now Peter and John were going up to the temple area for the three o’clock...
May 23, 2016
In good Christian fashion, I’ve often tried to take my cue from Nietzsche and philosophize...
May 19, 2016
As readers of my blog may know, I am a person prone to anxiety, even...
May 13, 2016
In a recent piece in Crux, Fordham professor Charles Camosy quotes Harvard Law professor Mark...

April 2016

April 25, 2016
Just yesterday a post appeared on another Patheos blog called “A plea for a measure...
April 24, 2016
It was a few years ago, when I was just beginning to come to the...
April 22, 2016
I am no alarmist, but there is undeniably something post-Christian about our time and place...
April 17, 2016
My last post, “Rigid Traditionalism is Idolatry,” has elicited quite the reaction, more so than...
April 15, 2016
Let it not be said that this piece applies to all traditionalists in a Latin...
April 11, 2016
As many a Catholic site repeats in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ rising political fortunes,...
April 04, 2016
Christianity defines itself as a religion of peace, not insofar as the Messiah brought and...
April 02, 2016
Mother Angelica’s repose has been a cause for personal reflection; she constituted a part of...
April 01, 2016
As an undergrad I majored in English and minored in Medieval Studies at a relatively...

March 2016

March 26, 2016
Easter is upon us! A once-a-year festival, it reminds us of, and celebrates, Christ’s victory...
March 26, 2016
God is dead! Such is the news of Good Friday as we contemplate the visceral...
March 21, 2016
Too often, we as a Church stand divided, divided by politics, ethnic background, and theological...
March 19, 2016
Therefore every individual, conscious of his responsibility as a member of Christian and Western civilization, must...
March 14, 2016
“Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand...
March 12, 2016
What follows is a personal and somewhat speculative attempt to understand the relationship between Pope...
March 08, 2016
These are the final words in the first vision of Hadewijch of Brabant (fl. early...
March 07, 2016
Even among devout Catholics, it’s not uncommon to hear about the “damage” caused by the...
March 06, 2016
(The following contains spoilers. And while I hope to keep them mild, if you haven’t...
March 03, 2016
Non-Trump voters do not get Trump: this goes for Democrats, Republicans, most analysts, my colleagues,...
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