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January 2021

January 04, 2021
Dear friends, this post is a little different, because today I am delighted to announce...

November 2020

November 08, 2020
The month of November begins with the celebration of All Saints. Indeed, before the liturgical...

October 2020

October 23, 2020
"You will know the truth, and the truth will make you odd." This quip –...

September 2020

September 25, 2020
Is a college education worth it? Between rising costs of tuition and dubious outcomes of...

August 2020

August 15, 2020
“Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” You may never...

July 2020

July 06, 2020
Do you ever burn with a sense of disproportion? A feeling that your desires are...

June 2020

June 19, 2020
Today's feast is simultaneously the most tender and the most metal of Catholicism: The Solemnity...
June 15, 2020
Today, for the first time in three months, I paid a visit to Our Lord...
June 07, 2020
Racism is evil, a particularly deep-rooted and damaging form of evil that haunts our nation's...

May 2020

May 14, 2020
The Pope has asked us to devote this day to begging God that the pandemic...
May 14, 2020
As my regular readers will know, I spent last summer with Benedictine nuns at the...
May 03, 2020
We celebrate on this day both Good Shepherd Sunday and Vocations Sunday. The Church reminds...

April 2020

April 20, 2020
"I can’t wait for this to be over." In the month since the UK entered...

January 2020

January 12, 2020
The most common question I am asked is “How do you reconcile your Catholic faith...

December 2019

December 20, 2019
I have the greatest housemates. Before my arrival I was nervous about housing, because I...

November 2019

November 27, 2019
I have two problems with how we celebrate Thanksgiving. First, we often treat it as...
November 07, 2019
Our culture fears anything related to death. We fear ageing, not merely out of distaste...

October 2019

October 31, 2019
My daily commute here at Cambridge is glorious. Depending on the day of the week,...
October 29, 2019
The news is filled with alarming statistics on child health and well-being. Rates of anxiety...
October 18, 2019
If you know me, you know that I like thinking about death. Not in a...

September 2019

September 30, 2019
The idea that neuroscience disproves the existence of free will is prevalent in popular culture....
September 06, 2019
We are in the midst of an epidemic of gun violence in America. Every week...

August 2019

August 31, 2019
Hello everyone, If you're a regular reader, you noticed that I took a long hiatus...

March 2019

March 25, 2019
In this season, many of us are likely practicing some form of asceticism. The word...
March 10, 2019
Friday was International Women’s Day, a day that aims to end discrimination against women. This...

February 2019

February 28, 2019
Here are four things that have challenged, informed, and fascinated me lately. 1. How Neuroscience...
February 19, 2019
On Thursday, the Vatican is hosting a summit on preventing clergy sexual abuse. Presidents of...
February 13, 2019
“There is no place in the brain for a soul to be hiding.” I recently...
February 10, 2019
I volunteer at a local juvenile detention facility. For several years now, I have run...
February 07, 2019
Mental illness is incredibly prevalent in the United States, affecting more than one in five...
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