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January 2018

January 09, 2018
A few summers ago (it’s terrifying to me that it’s been that long), I was...
January 08, 2018
Forgive me what might seem a non-sequitur. As a kid, I’d always greet the new...

December 2017

December 28, 2017
"Live without cares, judge no one, vex no one, and honor everyone.” – St. Ambrose...
December 27, 2017
Christmas time is when we cry out in joy at the announcement of a birth...
December 26, 2017
In the West, today marks the Feast of St. Stephen, deacon and first-recorded martyr. Tomorrow,...
December 25, 2017
These are the words with which my Church greets the birth of Christ: Christ is...
December 22, 2017
This seems an obvious statement, but, as with all things obvious, it’s only so when...
December 12, 2017
These sorts of pieces often begin by letting the reader know where the word “nice”...
December 06, 2017
Twitter and Facebook have made it more than clear that Latin Advent has begun. Devotionals...
December 05, 2017
Most of what I write for this blog deals with, naturally enough, Catholicism. Sometimes I...
December 04, 2017
“To coerce a man is to deprive him of freedom—freedom from what? Almost every moralist...

November 2017

November 20, 2017
It may seem rather odd for a Catholic to juxtapose these two terms, to place...
November 13, 2017
If I may begin abruptly: an ex-girlfriend once told me we couldn’t be together because...
November 11, 2017
  This post is a consolidation of an essay written by Nathan Smolin, a PhD...
November 10, 2017
I’m currently at a conference at Notre Dame. Yesterday, I took part in a panel...
November 09, 2017
Over a month ago I decided I’d do a series of meditations: one on the...
November 02, 2017
I called a friend today, and after chatting about his insomnia and our mutual affection...

September 2017

September 07, 2017
As I noted the other day, I’ve been trying to be more attentive in my...
September 05, 2017
How glorious a prayer it is; a safe haven against all manner of anxieties and...

August 2017

August 23, 2017
Does our definition of religious art matter?
August 22, 2017
People leave the Church for many reasons. In our time, there are some who depart...
August 09, 2017
Subsidiarity is a word that gets thrown around a good deal in Catholic circles. Typically,...
August 08, 2017
This is post is not about modesty as such. To go on about our cultural...
August 07, 2017
At this point, it’s trite to say that we live in a world of distractions....
August 02, 2017
As many of you know, an article in La Civilità Cattolica has stirred up a veritable...
August 01, 2017
Memento Mori, the Ars Moriendi, the Danse Macabre, even Fish Fridays—the Church has developed many...

July 2017

July 19, 2017
It would be wrong of me to identify as “depressed.” For one, I’ve never been...
July 12, 2017
Popular discourse divides the rhetoric of love into two possibilities.
July 10, 2017
I’ve been off at “theory camp” for the past few weeks, which, unfortunately has slowed...

June 2017

June 26, 2017
Liberalism carries with it specific discourses...
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