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April 2019

April 23, 2019

The globalization of Notre-Dame de Paris: for Great and Holy Tuesday

Paris, the Marxist geographer David Harvey argues, is the Capital of Modernity. There is a way...

April 12, 2019

On the perversion of the eucharistic body: the pornographic society in Benedict XVI’s letter on sex abuse

It goes without saying that Benedict XVI's recently published letter on sex abuse is terrible....

April 01, 2019

Mindy’s mystagogy: learning the theology of the body through Melinda Selmys

When I was in my catechumenate, folks at the temple I was at were all...

March 2019

March 27, 2019

Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum: on the crisis of my Annunciation spirituality

I write these thoughts on the occasion of the Feast of the Annunciation on the...

March 17, 2019

Please do not ask me about Jung: for the Sundays of Orthodoxy and Gregory Palamas

This post, written on the Sunday of Orthodoxy on the Old Calendar and of Gregory...

March 06, 2019

The morality of the closet: for Cheesefare Week after the Latins’ Ash Wednesday

For those who are among the cheeky in the Latin Church, Ash Wednesday is what...

February 2019

February 13, 2019

The Green New Deal: statements from Rome and Constantinople, 1989-2018

The outline for the Green New Deal is out. It's only 14 pages, and it...

February 02, 2019

Nunc dimittis: on Candlemas for me

When a brother of mine in the Latin Church asked about a week ago if...

January 2019

January 24, 2019

North by Northwest at Northwestern: on the Catholic gaze

About a month ago, I finally got around to watching the classic Hitchcock film North by...

January 15, 2019

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est: working reflections on the problematic in the postsecular wasteland (for St Sylvester’s Day)

To me, the theology of the Latin Church is encapsulated by the dictum, Ubi caritas et...

January 11, 2019

The Catholic far-right’s fantasies of education: on the online mobbing of Stephen Lewis

As far as I understand it, there is currently a hubbub over at Franciscan University...

January 01, 2019

I’m just another Chinese Christian: Eastern Catholic reflections for the secular New Year 2019

My sister Joanna, the one actually born of the same mother in the flesh as...

December 2018

December 29, 2018

The return of the Mother of Sheshan to my prayer: late reflections for Nativity and the Synaxis of the Theotokos 2018

Atop the Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians on Sheshan Hill in Shanghai stands...

December 07, 2018

The Vatican’s yellow fever: preliminary reflections on Chinese Catholicism

Amidst reports that the Latin faithful in China are being persecuted more than ever since...

December 05, 2018

‘Jude’s Chicago’: an Eastern Catholic addendum

After writing my previous post on my unexpected devotion to the Holy Apostle Jude Thaddeus,...

December 04, 2018

‘You will pray even in Spanish and Chinese’: on the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (St Philip’s Fast #7)

When I announced to my friends that I was getting chrismated in the Kyivan Church...

November 2018

November 20, 2018

On the Mercy Hospital shootings in Chicago

I originally posted this on Facebook when I was able to process the news that...

October 2018

October 27, 2018

‘Walking, stumbling, on these shadowfeet’: re-visiting the ‘postevangelical’ as ‘postsecular’

Two nights ago, I went on a whim to see what Brooke Fraser is doing...

October 14, 2018

Oscar Romero, the scholarship of everyday life, and the omophor of Pokrov for the civilization of love

These are my reflections on the canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero in our sister Latin...

October 13, 2018

Reading Sobrino on Óscar Romero and the glory of God

I confess, and do not deny, that I have had difficulty reading the works of...

October 13, 2018

The Bishops of Rome and the Hieromartyr Óscar Romero: on Paul Elie in The Atlantic

Paul Elie's piece in The Atlantic on the Bishops of Rome and the Holy New-Hieromartyr Óscar...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Crossing the rooms of the intellect

Once upon a time, the Jesuit scholar Matteo Ricci impressed the Ming imperial court...

September 19, 2018

‘Boys will be boys’ and the secularization of the church’s problems: reflections on Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford

I was about five years old when I learned the term sexual harassment. It thoroughly confused...

September 14, 2018

The moral, the theological, and the political (Series Recap: ‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’)

Sam Rocha gave me three years to narrate myself on this blog, and I made...

September 13, 2018

Where there are people, there are politics, and I write about church politics (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself #7)

This is the seventh and final post in a series reflecting on what I've been...

September 12, 2018

Cantoring, cinematic transference, and chastity (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #6)

This is the sixth in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 08, 2018

My wife is not ‘my Virgin Mary’ (Nativity of the Theotokos)

What do I say about Mary Godbearer on this Feast of her Nativity, the first...

September 07, 2018

I am not a jook sing because I have a home and am Catholic (‘I give you three years to narrate yourself’ #3)

This is the third in a series reflecting on what I've been doing on the...

September 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

Years ago, my friend Sam Rocha wrote a piece on the then-newly elected Pope Francis...

September 01, 2018

Augustine, #MeToo, and the church

On October 16, 2017, I shared some words on my Facebook regarding the #MeToo 'movement,'...

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