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October 2019

October 28, 2019

America’s Fifth Great Awakening

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

July 2019

July 02, 2019

Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy

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

August 2018

August 03, 2018

Death to the Death Penalty?

“Suppose you were to see a man who had been justly condemned being led to...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

What is Catholic Social Teaching?

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

May 16, 2018

Married Priests?

Bishop Tobin of Providence is in the news for a recent tweet about the Catholic...

May 14, 2018

Rigid Christianity?

Pope Francis has become notorious for (among other things) his comments on “rigid” Catholics. Unsurprisingly,...

December 2017

December 25, 2017

Christos Razdajetsja!

These are the words with which my Church greets the birth of Christ: Christ is...

November 2017

November 20, 2017

Catholic Ideology

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

August 2017

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...

December 2016

December 21, 2016

Is There a Civil War in the Church?

Because, frankly, I haven’t seen one. At liturgy, I have yet to come across the...

November 2016

November 14, 2016

Communist Francis? Sure, Why Not?

One must be very careful when speaking about Communism, and I don’t mean because it’s...

June 2016

June 02, 2016

Pope Francis: Father Figure

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

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Pope Francis’ Legacy Will Live On: Two Historical Parallels

History is repetition; all that happens has happened and will happen. So says Qoheleth: All...

May 30, 2016

The Pope of Justice and the Year of Mercy

Pope Francis—pontifex maximus of cheap grace and haphazard forgiveness, the kind of bishop who would’ve...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Tenebrae Laetitia

Just yesterday a post appeared on another Patheos blog called “A plea for a measure...

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 21, 2016

Pope Francis: “Donald Trump is a Protestant”

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

February 14, 2016

Charity, the Environment, and Papal Faux Pas

Today, I’d like to take a Lenten look back at an issue that has been...