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February 2019

February 11, 2019

The Antidote to Clericalism

If the problem is clericalism, what is the solution? It is axiomatic that vices cannot...

January 2019

January 20, 2019

Christian Unity or Symphony?

January 18 to 25 is the annual international Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Christians...

January 03, 2019

The Eros of Holy Friendship

Yesterday’s matins reading from Saint Gregory Nazianzen for the feast of two of the Cappadocian...

December 2018

December 01, 2018

The Tree That Bears Fruit 12 Times a Year

The final readings of the liturgical year reveal that the Tree of Life produces fruit...

November 2018

November 26, 2018

Snatching Death from the Jaws of Life

Ohio is expected to pass soon, even over the veto of Gov. Kasich, a prohibition...

November 14, 2018

Hierarchy and Obedience: An American Bishop Who Would Listen

Who knows what to make of the Holy See’s move to forestall the American bishops’...

November 01, 2018

All Saints Day Manifesto

The Bishops aren’t going to save the Church. That was clear to me as I...

September 2018

September 24, 2018

Teaching to Die to Self… Or Grooming for Cult Sacrifice?

“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow...

September 17, 2018

A Moral Maze… And Beautiful Garden

Moral imagination can be as important to training the conscience as logic, and probably more...

September 14, 2018

Reflecting on the Liturgy of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Collect: O God, who willed that your Only Begotten Son should undergo the Cross to...

September 08, 2018

“The Minutes of Tallow Light”: Resistances of Love in the Hypnotic System of Power

The upper hand of power would extinguish the victim. From the totalitarian night of occupied...

August 2018

August 28, 2018

Trans-Partisanship as Mark of the Spirit: On Viganò and the Crisis of Episcopal and Papal Power

Reading the tea leaves of clerical power politics is a fool’s game. And here we...

August 20, 2018

This Kind Does Not Come Out Except by Prayer and Fasting

Pope Francis has now issued a letter in response to the recent heart-wrenching revelations regarding...

August 15, 2018

What Can Be Assumed

God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen...

August 09, 2018

Who Can Teach Us?

These are disturbing and disorienting times for Catholics. Who can show us the way to...

August 03, 2018

Withdrawing from Capital Punishment as Development of a Gracious Kingdom

A Catholic is no longer free to support recourse to the death penalty. In revising...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Sexual Obsession: How Not to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of “Humanae vitae”

Like kudzu, our ponderous fixation on sex and sexuality overspreads and smothers the public square...

July 19, 2018

How NOT to Become a Saint

This little saying was shared recently on the Facebook page of a parish that shall...

July 06, 2018

From White-Washed Sepulcher to the Chapel of Guadalupe

The junior priest who is an excellent homilist, singer, and confessor was transferred to another...

July 04, 2018

God Held in Evil Hands

“Look, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being delivered into...

July 02, 2018

Let’s Not Call It Socialism

The economy of grace places under judgment all economic thinking of the sort, “This is...

June 2018

June 08, 2018

Dawn is Not Day

Salvation takes time. It is not a binary state: saved Though justification does in fact...

June 03, 2018

The Real Presence of Jesus

This great Feast of Corpus Christi falls just a couple of days after my brief...

June 01, 2018

Forever Falling in Love: The Good Life is Trinitarian, Part 2

How are we to live? What is the good life? The central question of philosophy....

May 2018

May 31, 2018

The Trinity and Narcissism: The Good Life is Trinitarian, Part 1

Who am I? What constitutes my “self”? An imperative might attend that interrogative: Find Yourself....

May 26, 2018

The Empire of the Dove (Part 3): Burn Hotter

These are Pentecostal days, days of conflagration. That might come across as ominous. Is and...

May 20, 2018

The Empire of the Dove (Part 2): An Embracing Motion

Happy Pentecost to you all! This great feast shakes us awake to the cosmic scale...

May 19, 2018

The Empire of the Dove (Part 1): Love Minus Zero

Love one another, with a love so limitlessness it is divine. That is the one...

May 16, 2018

A Church Without the Holy Spirit?

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they...

May 12, 2018

The Ascension Challenges Us – How Are We Doing?

“Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.” – Mark 16:15...