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June 2022

June 29, 2022

Who Founded the Catholic Church?

Essentially every self-described Christian group sees Jesus as its founder, either literally and historically or...

February 2020

February 03, 2020

Living Saints: Leszek

This is the second post in a series I am writing called “Living Saints.” It...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Thanks Be to God—Another Winter

It’s winter again and I should have far more of my dissertation submitted than I...

January 21, 2020

The Medieval and the Fascist

It is, at this point, a truism that the Middle Ages fascinate the American Alt-Right....

December 2019

December 10, 2019

Living Saints: Frances

Life is hard. Everyday we wake up and do it again, coffee in hand moments...

April 2019

April 21, 2019

Christ is Risen!

It is tradition in many Byzantine Churches to read from the Paschal Homily of St....

December 2018

December 26, 2018

Left Faithful

The “Left” in my title is indeed political, though one could also take in the...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

What is Catholic Social Teaching?

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

March 2018

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...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

A Hermeneutics of Liberation

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

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 12, 2017

Is Love Nice?

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

September 2017

September 05, 2017

A Meditation on the “Our Father”

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

July 2017

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...

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 27, 2017

Francis, My Pope

I am thankful for Pope Francis’ deep faith and joyous persona, for the hope he...

March 13, 2017

Will the Poor Always Be with Us?

It’s not uncommon, when you’re someone interested in “social justice,” to have this pericope thrown...

February 2017

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...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Charity in the Age of Trump

Irony has been essential in the rise of Donald Trump. I’ve written about it before,...

January 06, 2017

We Are All Trolls Now

Look at your average internet comment box and you’re in for a treat. Take, for...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

How Love Transforms: A Story

I have been meaning to tell this story for a while, but the beginning of...

August 2016

August 17, 2016

When Your Enemies Are Christians

Enemies broadly speaking anyway. This topic has stuck with me. Growing up American (read: secular),...

August 13, 2016

The Dirty “P” Word

Pastoral. From pastor, as in, a shepherd. In the Catholic circles in which I run...

August 10, 2016

Prayers for the Bulgarian Church

A little while ago I took a little bit (not quite boiling, more like low-simmer)...

July 2016

July 16, 2016

Why Are You Yelling? Or the Failure of Catholic Blogging

Unsurprisingly, I am surrounded by Catholic bloggers: opponents, friends, frenemies, and every other color of...