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July 2018

July 25, 2018

God of Gods

“No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a...

July 24, 2018

Live, Leisure, Die

Paul J. Griffiths has a recent piece on work, worship, and leisure. The first two...

July 18, 2018

Of Trump, Treason, and the Future of Liberalism

Steny Hoyer says that Donald Trump committed treason in Helsinki. That’s an odd sentence, but,...

July 08, 2018

The Face of God

The following is a reflection by a dear friend of mine, Nathan Smolin, who...

July 06, 2018

Hymns for the Working Class

Did Trump win because of the dissatisfaction of the working class? Some say “yea”; some...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

On Judgment

“A dog is better than I am, for he has love and he does not...

June 14, 2018

Why Dorothy Day Matters

In a piece entitled “Dorothy Day: The Model You Want,” a friend once wrote: I...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

Religion, Community, Secularity (An Interview)

The following is an interview with a dear friend (a writer and, dare I...

May 22, 2018

What is Catholic Social Teaching?

The following was written by my dear friend, Nathan Smolin, a PhD student in...

May 16, 2018

Married Priests?

Bishop Tobin of Providence is in the news for a recent tweet about the Catholic...

May 15, 2018

Loving Oneself

I have spent some time lately reflecting on particular words—a short phrase really. Brevity brings...

May 14, 2018

Rigid Christianity?

Pope Francis has become notorious for (among other things) his comments on “rigid” Catholics. Unsurprisingly,...

May 02, 2018

Merciful God, Wrathful God

I recently saw someone break American Catholics down into two categories: liberal and conservative. The...

May 02, 2018

Christian Anti-Gnosticism

At this point, “Gnosticism” is as much an accusation as a philosophy, a way anyone...

May 01, 2018

Mary, May, and International Workers’ Day

May First means many things. In England, it means May Poles and dancing. For Latin...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

The Narcissism of Expectations

How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing...

April 12, 2018

Christian Materialism?

“Materialism” is said in many ways, almost all bad according to contemporary Christians. Sometimes it...

March 2018

March 22, 2018

Eastern Christianity and Orientalism

Here, by “Eastern Christianity” I mean mostly “Byzantine Christianity,” what most people know through Eastern...

March 21, 2018

Pacifism?

I’ve been thinking about this word a lot recently, in part because we read The...

March 20, 2018

When Virtue Becomes Vice and Vice Becomes Virtue

I encounter this all the time. One man’s “righteous zeal” seems to another an unjust...

March 19, 2018

The Byzantine Dorothy Day

It’s no secret that I love Dorothy Day. She has helped me make sense of...

January 2018

January 16, 2018

Catholicism, Poverty, and the Alt-Right

Journalist: What about your intellectual and cultural journey? Althusser: I encountered two men. The first...

January 11, 2018

Francis and the Benedict Option

No, not the pope, but the friar. St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the...

January 09, 2018

Stewardship and the Temptations of Global Capital

A few summers ago (it’s terrifying to me that it’s been that long), I was...

January 08, 2018

Desire and Its Discontents

Forgive me what might seem a non-sequitur. As a kid, I’d always greet the new...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

A Hermeneutics of Liberation

"Live without cares, judge no one, vex no one, and honor everyone.” – St. Ambrose...

December 27, 2017

Japan’s Martyrs and Confessors

Christmas time is when we cry out in joy at the announcement of a birth...

December 26, 2017

St. Stephen’s Universalism

In the West, today marks the Feast of St. Stephen, deacon and first-recorded martyr. Tomorrow,...

December 25, 2017

Christos Razdajetsja!

These are the words with which my Church greets the birth of Christ: Christ is...

December 22, 2017

Language Matters

This seems an obvious statement, but, as with all things obvious, it’s only so when...

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