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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...

November 2018

November 25, 2018

Social justice symphonia: on Holodomor for the Feast of St Josaphat of Polotsk

By Orthodox standards, the saint of the Kyivan Church, the Holy Hieromartyr Josaphat (Kuntsevych) of...

October 2018

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 23, 2018

Freud’s throne room

As I was going about my day on this fine Sunday Before the Exaltation of...

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 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

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

September 01, 2018

Justin’s Apology

My patron saint is Holy Justin the Philosopher and Martyr. Every morning I ask him...

August 2018

August 25, 2018

On the Vigano memo about what Francis knew about McCarrick

Shit.

August 16, 2018

Nothing surprises me anymore – until it does: reflections on the Pennsylvania grand jury report and bishops’ conferences

As I read the grand jury report from Pennsylvania on the sex crimes of priests...

October 2017

October 04, 2017

Abba Francis

Today on the New Calendar is the Feast of Our Venerable Father among the Saints...

September 2017

September 01, 2017

Geography, the writing of the earth: reflections for the beginning of the Byzantine Year

I have a PhD in geography, so it follows that I should have something to...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

Writing as a convert

There has been a little bit of a dust-up in the Latin Church recently about converts...

August 11, 2017

The private consensus is unraveling (Dormition Fast #10)

In 2013, in the year of the election of Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio SJ as Pope...

August 11, 2016

Another Latin Catholic Person reflects on World Youth Day

I knew it. The real World Youth Day reflections are finally coming out. While World...

August 06, 2016

On discovering that the use of the atomic bomb was a moral problem

NOTE: This is a story of trauma. There are therefore traumatic details that I will...

August 03, 2016

A Note from My Editor, Sam Rocha

My editor here at Patheos Catholic, Sam Rocha, has a note for all of you...

August 01, 2016

World Youth Day and the France Attacks, or why it’s important that Francis got the ‘piecemeal third world war’ from Korea

World Youth Day is now over, which means that I can now write about it....

August 01, 2016

Pope Francis, Mother Teresa, and Year of Mercy on the secular radio

I'm gearing up for a series of reflections on Pope Francis and last week's World...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

This is what a normal Jesuit looks like

The Feast of St Ignatius of Loyola is just winding down to a close. I...

July 31, 2016

So maybe I do know some persons at World Youth Day

I dashed off my last post because following World Youth Day with a nine hour...

July 30, 2016

I’m planning to write about World Youth Day, but I can’t chase this ambulance

I said in my last post that I want to write about World Youth Day,...

July 29, 2016

Does Being Catholic Change How I Write About Pope Francis?

I used to write about Pope Francis from the vantage point of a secular academic who...

December 2015

December 09, 2015

Courageously mourning with Eastern Catholics

Recently, I organized an event for an Eastern Catholic parish. I am not Eastern Catholic....

November 2015

November 01, 2015

The Subject of the Big Jesuit Plot

I've recently begun seeing a Jesuit spiritual director. In light of the big Catholic Twitter...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

Assumptions

Hit play first. Then read. The news cycle this week has been nuts. From the...

August 15, 2014

Assuming Catholic Geopolitics

Occasionally here on Religion Ethnicity Wired, I've plugged how Asian American and Asia-Pacific Catholicisms rock...

April 2014

April 27, 2014

The Canonization of Vatican II on Divine Mercy Sunday

Deus misericordiæ sempiteranæ, qui in ipso paschali festi recursu fidem sacratæ tibi plebis accendis auge...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

What’s So Good About Being Anglican? (Part 3)

If you haven't read part 1 yet, or the 'Is Anglicanism strategic' post, go catch...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Mary is yours, whether you are ‘catholic’ or ‘evangelical’

We call this a Thing, as Churl says, professing to have a meeting of the...

May 24, 2013

Our Silence on Oklahoma

The blogosphere has been on fire with multiple comments about the tornado that has devastated...

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