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August 2018

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...

May 10, 2018

When Jerusalem Came to Athens: Saint Paul on Mars Hill

Happy Ascension Thursday! Here in Boston we observe the feast at its proper time, allowing...

May 07, 2018

The Magnanimity of the World: Mary’s May

The iron ticking of the cosmic clock sounds like futility. Friends die or fade away;...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

Welcome!

Beyond All Telling is excited to be joining the Patheos Catholic blogging community! We are...