A reader writes: I have been following your blog regularly for about two years now, and your work has sparked many a rousing discussion at our dinner table. In recent months, my wife and I have undergone a lot of personal suffering–three months of family deaths, financial difficulties, etc. It felt at times like we were being squeezed from all sides. This time seems to have passed, and it led us to reflect more deeply in prayer on suffering, poverty,... Read more

“for a special intention”. Lord, hear our prayer. (I wonder how many quintillions of prayers God has gotten for special intentions. This is where omniscience really pays off.) Read more

and lifted up the lowly. Everybody loves Susan Boyle. Me too. Read more

and lifted up the lowly. Everybody loves Susan Boyle. Me too. Read more

Glad to see it. Read more

My latest for Catholic Exchange. Read more

My latest for Catholic Exchange. Read more

Rhetoric like this, being emitted by the apostates in charge of the LCWR, pretty much tells you all you need to know: The dynamic option for Religious Life, which I am calling, Sojourning, is much more difficult to discuss, since it involves moving beyond the Church, even beyond Jesus. A sojourning congregation is no longer ecclesiastical. It has grown beyond the bounds of institutional religion. Its search for the Holy may have begun rooted in Jesus as the Christ, but... Read more

Rhetoric like this, being emitted by the apostates in charge of the LCWR, pretty much tells you all you need to know: The dynamic option for Religious Life, which I am calling, Sojourning, is much more difficult to discuss, since it involves moving beyond the Church, even beyond Jesus. A sojourning congregation is no longer ecclesiastical. It has grown beyond the bounds of institutional religion. Its search for the Holy may have begun rooted in Jesus as the Christ, but... Read more

“I love it when you talk about Catholic teaching, but on political stuff you drive me crazy.” What is, for many of my readers a complete disconnect is, for me, simply continuity. I’m really quite surprised that people don’t get this. So, for instance, when I write below about American secular messianism, I have in mind… Catholic teaching: 675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The... Read more