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September 2022

September 11, 2022

A Long Rapture?: A Short Meditation on 9/11

On this day of national mourning, those lives lost twenty-one years ago burn in our...

June 2022

June 21, 2022

On Juneteenth: A Heart for Hidden Suffering

[To extend the celebration of Juneteenth a bit, I re-present a piece written in 2020,...

April 2022

April 16, 2022

We Suffer, so Jesus Suffers: Trinity Must Swallow Hell

Suffering forces us into a tight space, like a stone tomb, as the etymology of...

March 2022

March 25, 2022

Heart Conceives Heart

Today, in hiddenness and smallness, the axis-tree of the world is replanted in an abyss...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

On the Pro-Life Direction of Providence: The Christian Withdrawal from Killing

[This was originally published at Ethika Politika on 17 January 2019. At the moment, the...

July 2019

July 04, 2019

We are Know-Somethings: On the American Declaration of the Equal Dignity of Every Human

Happy Independence Day to you all! Political self-determination is a human necessity because it gives...

July 02, 2019

The Bible: Insipid, Inspired, or Inspiring?

When we read the Bible, what are we looking for? Clarity? Instruction? Inspiration? Whatever we...

June 2019

June 02, 2019

The Blessed Redundancy of the Advocate

I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

Belonging to God’s Household

In the grand arc of Scripture, we see again and again that there are two...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Betrothed to God at a Price

This Triduum that just passed, I was abundantly blessed to be able to hear the...

April 13, 2019

The Third Person of the Trinity and a Third Way of Prayer

To continue the series on ways of deepening our relationship with the Holy Spirit, I...

March 2019

March 11, 2019

Seeking the Spirit with a Pure Heart

The Holy Spirit will not allow Himself to be used. God never acts like a...

March 07, 2019

A Perpetual Witness to Christ

Most of the Passion of Perpetua is told in her own voice, written by her...

February 2019

February 24, 2019

In the End is the Beginning

Jürgen Moltmann’s book on eschatology, The Coming of God, came to my hands again recently....

February 18, 2019

Inviting the Holy Spirit: Marian Consecration

Why are we starting off a series about inviting the Holy Spirit to take up...

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...