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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...

January 2020

January 22, 2020

Progressive in the Sheets, Centrist in the Streets

Many are self-professedly “progressive,” but default to moderate policies because, as they say, the world...

December 2019

December 04, 2019

Technocracy and Apocalypse

It’s weird to be a young man in times deemed “frightening” or “aberrant.” Does the...

November 2019

November 14, 2019

Evangelical Christianity: The American Imperial Church?

If Catholicism came to Latin America with conquistadors, evangelicalism has found its way southward through...

July 2019

July 02, 2019

Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy

Christianity is a communal religion; it coheres in a Church, a body of believers spiritually-...

November 2017

November 20, 2017

Catholic Ideology

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

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...

November 2016

November 01, 2016

Is a Smaller Church a Better Church?

Last week, Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia gave a, by-now infamous, speech, read by some as...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Donald Trump: Human, All Too Human

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Who is Donald Trump: savior, pragmatic choice,...

July 2016

July 17, 2016

Versus “Versus Populum”

I can’t help but laugh a bit when I hear liturgists and other Catholics speak...

June 2016

June 02, 2016

Pope Francis: Father Figure

My last two posts (available here and here) have attempted defenses of the current pontiff....

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...