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March 12, 2024

Shimmering Opacity in a Country Church

This one is likely to be short. I’ve just handed in my dissertation, and I...

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...

December 2020

December 01, 2020

Liberalism, or Rule by Technicality

When George H.W. Bush died, he was publicly lamented as “the last WASP president,” a...

November 2020

November 23, 2020

Prayer is Left

I find myself in an uneasy situation. I don't love either Donald Trump or Joe...

April 2020

April 07, 2020

The Religious Left and the Atheistic Right

Teaching has brought me back to Nietzsche once again. This is always a revivifying process,...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

Nietzsche and Me

A student followed me out of class the other day; he couldn’t believe that I,...

December 2019

December 10, 2019

Living Saints: Frances

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

October 2019

October 29, 2019

Does What You Believe Affect What You Do?

I am a Slovak-American. This means I care about something that, I imagine, fairly few...

October 28, 2019

America’s Fifth Great Awakening

It is here and He is risen. Kanye West’s new album, Jesus is King, hit...

April 2019

April 21, 2019

Christ is Risen!

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

April 15, 2019

Notre Dame de Paris is Burning

Notre Dame is perhaps the most famous cathedral in the work. And now, it’s on...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

Depressive Catholicism

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

May 2017

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...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

We Stand Accused

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

January 2017

January 03, 2017

Scorsese’s Silence: A (No Spoilers) Review

Silence might be the most Catholic thing I have ever seen. To truly justify that,...

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...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

Being a Good Christian, Being a Sinner

I am a convert (or a revert, depending on how you ask). Unlike some Cradle...

April 2016

April 22, 2016

On Christianity after Christendom

I am no alarmist, but there is undeniably something post-Christian about our time and place...

April 15, 2016

Rigid Traditionalism is Idolatry

Let it not be said that this piece applies to all traditionalists in a Latin...

March 2016

March 12, 2016

Understanding the Pope and His Critics

What follows is a personal and somewhat speculative attempt to understand the relationship between Pope...

March 07, 2016

In Praise of Papal Ambiguity

Even among devout Catholics, it’s not uncommon to hear about the “damage” caused by the...

February 2016

February 27, 2016

How I Came to be Christian: Part Two

(This post is part of a series. Part one can be found here). If...

February 21, 2016

Pope Francis: “Donald Trump is a Protestant”

No works. Faith. No good. Or so goes the conventional Catholic understanding of justification...

February 20, 2016

Forgotten Catholics: Dom Léonce Crenier

“Léonce Crenier was as righteous and sincere, as forthright and generous during his youth with...