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December 2020

December 08, 2020

The Woman Who Says I AM

In Marian apparitions such as Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of Lourdes, the...

August 2019

August 06, 2019

Jiminy Cricket, Another Mass Shooting!

Why are these massacres occurring with crushing and accelerating frequency? I can’t help but perceive...

July 2019

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...

April 2019

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...

February 2019

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...

November 2018

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...

August 2018

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 09, 2018

Who Can Teach Us?

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

June 2018

June 03, 2018

The Real Presence of Jesus

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

May 2018

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...