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December 2017

December 12, 2017

Is Love Nice?

These sorts of pieces often begin by letting the reader know where the word “nice”...

December 06, 2017

Byzantine “Advent”

Twitter and Facebook have made it more than clear that Latin Advent has begun. Devotionals...

December 05, 2017

Tax Plans, Graduate Students, and Bearing the Burden

Most of what I write for this blog deals with, naturally enough, Catholicism. Sometimes I...

December 04, 2017

Freedom: A Vexed Question

“To coerce a man is to deprive him of freedom—freedom from what? Almost every moralist...

November 2017

November 20, 2017

Catholic Ideology

It may seem rather odd for a Catholic to juxtapose these two terms, to place...

November 13, 2017

Finding Yourself and Other Half-Truths

If I may begin abruptly: an ex-girlfriend once told me we couldn’t be together because...

November 11, 2017

1054: History, Myth, and the Making of a Schism (Full Essay)

This post is a consolidation of an essay written by Nathan Smolin, a PhD...

November 10, 2017

What’s so Great About the Great Books?

I’m currently at a conference at Notre Dame. Yesterday, I took part in a panel...

November 09, 2017

A Meditation on the “Jesus Prayer”

Over a month ago I decided I’d do a series of meditations: one on the...

November 02, 2017

Vanity, Vanity

I called a friend today, and after chatting about his insomnia and our mutual affection...

September 2017

September 07, 2017

A Meditation on the “Hail Mary”

As I noted the other day, I’ve been trying to be more attentive in my...

September 05, 2017

A Meditation on the “Our Father”

How glorious a prayer it is; a safe haven against all manner of anxieties and...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

What Is Religious Art?

Does our definition of religious art matter?

August 22, 2017

For Those Considering Leaving the Church

People leave the Church for many reasons. In our time, there are some who depart...

August 09, 2017

Subsidarity Is Not Libertarianism

Subsidiarity is a word that gets thrown around a good deal in Catholic circles. Typically,...

August 08, 2017

Catholic Modesty Fetishism

This is post is not about modesty as such. To go on about our cultural...

August 07, 2017

Distracted Prayer

At this point, it’s trite to say that we live in a world of distractions....

August 02, 2017

Catholic Politics in the Age of Francis and Trump

As many of you know, an article in La Civilità Cattolica has stirred up a veritable...

August 01, 2017

Dying Before You Die

Memento Mori, the Ars Moriendi, the Danse Macabre, even Fish Fridays—the Church has developed many...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

Depressive Catholicism

It would be wrong of me to identify as “depressed.” For one, I’ve never been...

July 12, 2017

What Is Love?

Popular discourse divides the rhetoric of love into two possibilities.

July 10, 2017

An Interview with Yours Truly on NPR

I’ve been off at “theory camp” for the past few weeks, which, unfortunately has slowed...

June 2017

June 26, 2017

If the Church Condemns Socialism, She Condemns Modern Conservatism

Liberalism carries with it specific discourses...

June 21, 2017

Christianity, Conspiracy Theory, Evil

What is the relationship between American Christians and conspiracy theories anyway?

June 13, 2017

A Byzantine Morning Prayer

Would that my prayer life were not so tumultuous. All too often I oscillate between...

June 12, 2017

Humility and Joy, Joy and Humility

I made the last-chance Mass, as I believe they call it. I wandered in around...

June 08, 2017

Catholicism and Marx: An Introduction

Catholic readers found an ally in Marx because he was interested in many of the...

June 07, 2017

Nostalgia: Enemy of Christianity

Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia—these days a common thing. My father re-watches Smokey and the Bandit, pining...

June 06, 2017

The Fatal Flaw in the Pro-Life Movement

There’s been a good deal of talk about the Pro-Life Movement recently, specifically how it...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

Against Apocalypse

Refusing to say we “know” the time is central to Christianity.

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