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November 2017

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 22, 2017

For Those Considering Leaving the Church

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

August 07, 2017

Distracted Prayer

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

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 12, 2017

What Is Love?

Popular discourse divides the rhetoric of love into two possibilities.

June 2017

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...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

Against Apocalypse

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

May 17, 2017

Be as Job

Job confounds. A book in which God allows “the satan” to overwhelm a righteous man,...

May 11, 2017

Ecclesiastes Is All We Need

Everything, absolutely everything, you consider important, all the goods to which you lay claim—it’s all...

May 10, 2017

How to Avoid Cafeteria Catholicism and Champagne Socialism

In my own conversion, Catholicism was attractive precisely because it provided guidance; it made sense...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Christians, Muslims, and Jews, Oh My!

The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and...

March 29, 2017

Against Consolation

From Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy to the myriad works on self-help today, consolation is taken...

March 28, 2017

The Little Things

There’s a song from a show from my youth, Hey Arnold, called “The Simple Things.”...

March 12, 2017

The First Are Always Last

Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last. (Matthew 20:16) A...

March 03, 2017

Catholicism is Struggle

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, etc. I have the pleasure of taking part in...

March 01, 2017

Pray at Your Own Peril

When I first began practicing the Faith (poorly), I printed out some Bible verses during...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

The Nothingness of Lent

Lent, East and West, begins with a supposition: we are broken beings in need of...

February 26, 2017

Being Forgiven

Last night the deacon’s homily emphasized the reciprocal nature of forgiveness: we forgive so that...

February 25, 2017

Our Daily Bread

Not the Eucharist. I recall being in third grade, given an assignment to visualize the...

February 16, 2017

The Sensuous Catholic Body

This one will be short, because my point is singular: American Catholics must avoid the...

February 15, 2017

“Yes”

I can’t shake this feeling: Mary said “yes.” She said “yes.” She said, as the...

February 10, 2017

Imagining Unity with the Churches of the East

This post is by a new friend of mine, Ben Martin, a PhD student in...

February 09, 2017

We Stand Accused

Times are, to read the news, bleak. And if I needed any additional confirmation, my...

February 08, 2017

Pray for Nothing

When I became more rigorously Christian, I recall being plagued by the question of prayer....

January 2017

January 25, 2017

Prayers for Pope Francis

It seems I can’t go a day without hearing about the pope. Such is the...

January 04, 2017

The Decline of Liberal Protestantism: A Lesson for Catholics

A piece online today at the Washington Post links “liberal” theology to declines in church...