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November 2016

November 14, 2016
The truth is, I'm going to be just fine during the Trump Administration. I 'm holding...
November 11, 2016
For several years now, I've attended daily Mass at St. Clare Church, where the average...
November 08, 2016
  In politics, as in war, there is often only one favorable moment- an opportunity...

October 2016

October 14, 2016
In temporary relief from the ongoing telenovella of our impending national election, we habitues of the Front...

September 2016

September 14, 2016
[An old friend in pain recently emailed me to share some anguish and doubt. (S)he...

August 2016

August 29, 2016
Join us at Novena For Peace! General Intentions: For an end to the injustice of exploitation....
August 23, 2016
The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.  Therefore, whatever they tell you observe...
August 20, 2016
Eighty-one days of prayer for justice, peace, and racial reconciliation in the United States. We...
August 03, 2016
Perhaps the greatest threat Trump presents to religious liberty is his abiding promise to form...
August 01, 2016
Every summer for the past 19 years, the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma...

July 2016

July 06, 2016
Dear reader, be advised this will not be a standard book review. I have before...
July 04, 2016
In 1976, the evangelical church of my youth celebrated the bicentennial of American independence. Since my dad...
July 02, 2016
"The global economy is not working for the majority of people in our country and...

June 2016

June 09, 2016
Having come into the Church as a convert on Easter Sunday, 1986, I am what’s...

May 2016

May 30, 2016
Saints, G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, are an antidote to whatever the age neglects. Such...
May 27, 2016
A couple of years ago, I took some members of a large Rwandan refugee family to a...
May 24, 2016
What I’m about write is not an exercise in partisan advocacy. I belong to neither...
May 18, 2016
I write today for the purpose of recommending “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants...
May 11, 2016
This essay is adapted from the original which appeared at Vox Nova on August 23,...
May 06, 2016
This is the skillful attempt that is being made to substitute Philanthropy for Justice. There...
May 05, 2016
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May 04, 2016
Our society and morals are suffering because of this.
May 02, 2016
I've not been to Las Vegas since my high school Latin group stopped there briefly...

April 2016

April 29, 2016
“Charity is the Samaritan who pours oil on the wounds of the traveler who has...
April 28, 2016
Sometimes we do things on the basis of an intuition and only later are we...
April 26, 2016
I have a friend named Trish who frequently corners me after Mass to ask questions...
April 21, 2016
[This post concludes Paul Grenier’s dialogue on torture and solidarity. You may also read part...
April 19, 2016
“Look here,” G.B. Shaw once gently chaffed his friend and debating partner G.K. Chesterton, “Is...
April 18, 2016
[This post is a continuation of Paul Grenier’s dialogue on torture and solidarity. The first...
April 12, 2016
There are many devout people, it seems, who imagine the Church a purely transcendent, an...
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