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July 2017

July 12, 2017

The Surprising Anti-Capitalist Logic Behind the Catholic Church’s Continued Ban of Gluten-Free Hosts

The continued ban of gluten-free hosts in the Catholic Church shows that the specificity of...

June 2017

June 21, 2017

The Holy Family as an Icon of World Refugee Day?

The exemplary figure of the refugee has deep biblical roots in both the Old and...

May 2017

May 03, 2017

Western Civ Doesn’t Need Tenured Radicals to Ruin Itself

“Tragedy typically leaves questions painfully open, . . . [but] the challenge is not only how...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Post-Execution Church: Rise Up from the Electric Chair!

I read this recent New York Times interview with people who have witnessed an act...

April 24, 2017

Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Memory of the Holocaust Continues to Evolve

The great German philosopher is usually only known for the statement, made in Prisms, that the culture which...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

Prayer Isn’t About God

Prayer, modern people think it's about God. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Praying is difficult to understand, because we...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The Left Has Magically Discovered Religious Freedom!

Religious freedom as it actually functions in American politics is a very ambivalent issue. More often...

January 22, 2017

St. Paul’s First Letter to the Catholics

Today's second reading is 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17: I urge you, brothers and sisters, in...

January 18, 2017

Have You Tried Shutting Up?

It is better to remain silent and to be than to talk and not be....

January 17, 2017

Why Must God Hate the American Dream?

The American Dream is making a comeback. Trump channeled it with the Make America Great...

December 2016

December 10, 2016

The Medieval Catholic Origins of Human Rights (Day)

The head-in-the-sand stance of many Catholics toward the modern world leaves them unprepared to engage their...

December 05, 2016

Religion: Either Everything, or Nothing

"Religion is either everything, or it is nothing." --Pawel Rojek, Avant-garde Conservatism "Christianity has functioned...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

The Reformation is Not Done with You

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." --William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

Reflections of a Priest from India on the Consequences of White Privilege in America

As I've remarked on occasion, I have social media "friends" of all kinds of political...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Don’t Look to Secularism if You Want to Bathe in a Kinder, Gentler World

The problem of violence is an inherently human problem. It is unavoidable, because violence is...

August 19, 2016

Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing of Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils

I have reached a point of exhaustion with politics, just as any respectably abnormal person should. The...

August 17, 2016

Slavoj Žižek: There’s a Special Place in Hell for Clinton Consensus Supporters

I write about politics again not because I have any hopes (nor fears) about what...

August 16, 2016

AP Poll of ISIS Members Proves Pope Right on Islam

The West's knowledge of Islam makes Christians say dumb things about ISIS; I would venture...

August 14, 2016

Last Eyewitness Explains What the Sacrifice of St. Maximilian Kolbe Means

Let us remember that love lives through sacrifice and is nourished by giving. Without sacrifice...

August 06, 2016

Truman Lied, Hiroshima Fried: An Atomic Transfiguration

If our gospel does not penetrate the veil, then the veil is on those who...

August 01, 2016

Pope Francis Wasn’t Silent About Auschwitz; He Deconstructed It Instead

There's plenty of talk about Francis's silence during his visit to Auschwitz last week. This...

July 2016

July 25, 2016

7 Places You Have to Visit During World Youth Day to Get a Real Feel for the Soul of Krakow

If I forget you, O Krakow, let my right hand wither. These are my "I'm...

July 20, 2016

The Structural Sin of Racism Rends the Body of Christ

Anyone with the slightest sensitivity…cannot fail to recognize the nature of National Socialism: naturalistic, antagonistic...

July 14, 2016

The Powerful Catholic Case for a Preferential Option for Black Lives Matter

I stayed out of the fray of commenting on Black Lives Matter until yesterday, because...

July 13, 2016

Why Do “All Lives Matter” Armchair Commentators Disgust Me More after the Murder of Philando Castile?

Perhaps because I know where Falcon Heights is. Perhaps because he was my age, graduating...

July 07, 2016

Only Useful Idiots Would Say Cardinal Zen is Calling for Schism in China

On June 30, 2016, the Italian news outlet La Stampa put out an article written...

July 04, 2016

Does America Have a Philosophical Soul?

My brother introduced me to the Old Crow Medicine Show perhaps a dozen years ago,...

June 2016

June 24, 2016

Before Brexit: The Catholic Imagery and Origins of the EU

The next couple of weeks you'll watch the British Pound turn into the British Ounce...

June 24, 2016

Churchill’s Dream of a United States of Europe Dies with Brexit

The structure of the United States of Europe, if well and truly built, will be...

June 17, 2016

The Orthodox Believer’s Tale of Jesus’s Wife

Was Jesus married? Shocking news pieces attempting to debunk the orthodox version of the life...