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March 2015

March 19, 2015

My Quaint, Silly, Ridiculous, Little, Lovely, Lovely Faith

The Calling of St. Matthew by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio When I was growing up,...

March 15, 2015

Why That Woman Wept At Confession

I have to be honest. I was jarred when I first heard it....

March 11, 2015

Twisted Cross, True Cross

I was only nine when I saw it. And it is strange that...

March 06, 2015

God & the Darkness

Forgive me. I am in a dark mood. There is darkness these days. And...

March 03, 2015

“Nothing New”: On Aggression & Inertia

Let us imagine a Country with an inordinate hatred. A hatred of a People. Whenever...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

All I Aspire To This Lent I Learned From a Saint & a Twelve-Year Old

I. The Saint It was a warm August day in 1958 and the water was...

February 14, 2015

I Am a Vulgar Man

It was a masterpiece and it was his secret. Until this moment. In the...

February 05, 2015

“So Very Precious”: How I Rediscovered the Eucharist

It was quite a few years ago when it happened. But, boy, did it...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Wrestling With the Darkness of Man (On Auschwitz & Dietrich von Hildebrand)

Lieutenant Ivan Martynushkin peered at what lay in front of him. On a bitter January...

January 20, 2015

Why My Kids Go To Catholic School

Author's Note: For Catholic Schools Week, I've been asked to speak to my parish congregation...

January 15, 2015

What I Learned from Romano Guardini & Jesus Christ Superstar

And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and he prayed. Simon...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

I Have a Confession to Make

The Confession by Guiseppe Molteni I have a confession to make. Years ago, before I...

December 24, 2014

Christ Child (A Poem for Christmas)

Nativity with Saints Francis & Lawrence by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio --------- Christ Child Did...

December 22, 2014

Why Stories Trump Statements

Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me by Fritz von Uhde "A story is a...

December 16, 2014

On Thomas Merton & Being Your Brother’s Keeper

The First Mourning by William-Adolphe Bouguereau Then the Lord asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"...

December 07, 2014

The Wisdom of Dickens’ Second Ghost

As the second Advent candle is lit and the days are advancing to Christmas,...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

“One Day, Not Far Off ” – Advent & Liberation

"Christians used the word 'advent' to express their relationship with Jesus Christ: Jesus is the...

November 26, 2014

Ferguson, Martin Luther King, Jr. & Being Honest About Protest

It's late - very late. It is the second night of protests in Ferguson, Missouri. It...

November 24, 2014

The Pope, Conscience & the Clattering Train

It was April, 1935. And Winston Churchill, a lowly Member of the British Parliament, was...

November 13, 2014

First Reconciliation & An Encounter with “An Absolute Beauty”

I'd never been to a retreat like this. This would be my first. I guess...

November 07, 2014

On Flannery O’Connor, Brittany Maynard & the Eclipsing of God

It was 1951 and she was much too young to be so sick. Much too...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

When Ebola, Public Health & Politics Collide

"We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult,...

October 25, 2014

On Ebola, Uncertainty & Imperfection

We crowded into a small room at my internal medicine clinic and looked at each...

October 23, 2014

Hilaire Belloc’s “The Four Men” – The First Day (On Hearing the Journey’s Call)

"The Four Men is the greatest of books." - Fr. James Schall "Read anything of...

October 19, 2014

What a Catholic Can Learn From Orwell, Churchill & Bruce Springsteen

Recently, on my Instagram account (catholic thinker), I posted a quote by George Orwell that...

October 14, 2014

Six Words That Explain The Catholic View of Death

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Remembering the Dead:...

October 08, 2014

Churchill, Chamberlain & Why Leadership Matters

Recently, thanks to Elizabeth Scalia's piece on Winston Churchill, I got to thinking. Leadership really...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

The Conversion of Evelyn Waugh & the Fine Art of Keeping One’s Head

"The trouble about the world today is that there's not enough religion in it. There's...

September 25, 2014

How the News Tried To Make Me a Cynic…and Failed

"It is better to light a candle to than to curse the darkness." - Anonymous...

September 18, 2014

Are You Fair to the Catholic Church? (An Invitation to “Recovering Catholics”)

It happened one night years ago at the local Lutheran church. I should have seen...

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