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March 2017

March 01, 2017

Don’t Give Up For Lent

To the outsider the season of Lent might seem like an irrational outbreak of Pelagianism....

February 2017

February 26, 2017

Oscar Best Picture Nominee “Arrival” and the Bearable Heaviness of Being

Light is sweet; at sight of the sun the eyes are glad. However great the...

February 15, 2017

The Young Pope: The Second Coming of Brideshead Revisited?

In many ways, The Young Pope is the second coming of Brideshead Revisited. In the...

August 2016

August 14, 2016

Jeremiah Ought to be Put to Death

In those days, the princes said to the king: “Jeremiah ought to be put to...

January 2016

January 13, 2016

Oh! You Pretty Things: Spotlight on David Bowie and Catholic Sex Scandals

NOTA BENE: I don't say anything here that would have caused shame to Bowie. Therefore...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

5 Reasons Why the Jesuits are More Like the First Order than the Jedi Knights

I gave in to the merchandising juggernaut that is Star Wars VII on Saturday. There...

December 18, 2015

The Pope Who Revolutionized Catholic Dialogue with Islam

You might think it's Francis, but it's not. The Wheaton College affair seemed like a...

December 10, 2015

3 Ways Vatican’s ZooTV Exposes Modern Theology’s Weaknesses

The projections of animals and non-Catholic human-animals onto the facade of St. Peter's led to...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

TOP10 SciFi Book & Film Resources for a Judgmental Prophetic Theology

The SciFi genre is today's incarnation of the prophetic tradition's harsh and judgmental sayings of...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

The Bothersome Man’s Search for Meaning

Books are not only bibliography fodder. They are also fodder for life. Sometimes books even...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

I found something truly unusual while doing research for my piece On the Polish Origins...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Ida and Avoiding Silence at Any Cost

My initial reflections upon Ida concentrated upon the historical context of the film, about what...

February 23, 2015

1 Thing Nobody Noticed about Oscar Best Foreign Film Winner Ida

Great art always shows you more than you are prepared to see. While watching Ida...

February 18, 2015

What Does The Wolf of Wall Street Teach Us About Faith and Lent?

Scorsese caught a lot of flack for The Wolf of Wall Street. The critics said...

February 04, 2015

Last Temptation of Christ & American Christian Responses to ISIS

The season of Lent is almost upon us. We are traditionally invited to practice ascesis. That...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

The Consequences of God’s Maternal Thinking for Theology

The feminist Sara Ruddick must be doing something right if both Alasdair MacIntyre and Janet Martin...

September 2014

September 16, 2014

Woody Allen Considers Conversion

Allen’s latest film Magic in the Moonlight has not received the credit it deserves. At first glance...