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June 2020

June 29, 2020

On Raymond Arroyo’s EWTN Interview with Donald Trump

Okay, so it wasn't exactly Peter Jennings sitting down to interview Ronald Reagan. But did...

June 24, 2020

Gloria Purvis of EWTN Tells Our Sunday Visitor “Racism is Demonic.”

I had a GREAT interview this week for Our Sunday Visitor with Gloria Purvis, the...

June 22, 2020

Rooting Out Racism Will Be Difficult.

I don't exactly have a green thumb. If potted plants could file charges, I'd likely...

June 18, 2020

A Q&A with Lamar Hunt, Jr. of the Kansas City Chiefs Family.

Every month, I have the privilege of interviewing Catholic "news-makers" - business leaders, bishops, entrepreneurs,...

June 16, 2020

How Black Catholic Leaders Have Been Responding to the George Floyd Video.

Since late May, I've interviewed and spoken with several black Catholic leaders in the course...

June 05, 2020

Real Talk: White American Catholics Have a Racism Problem.

This may shock you, though it sadly shouldn't: White American Catholics can be racist. Yes,...

May 2020

May 26, 2020

After “AKA Jane Roe,” An Examination of Conscience Is In Order

"What we did with Norma was highly unethical. The jig is up." That eye-opening comment...

April 2020

April 11, 2020

A Former Court Reporter’s Take On The Cardinal Pell Case

There may well have been too much reasonable doubt to sustain Cardinal George Pell's conviction....

April 03, 2020

No, God Did Not Send Coronavirus To Punish Us For Sin.

You can tell a lot about a person based on how they understand God. Whether...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

Coronavirus Is Serious, So Stop Messing Around

I had a great squad leader when I was a young U.S. Army infantryman. In...

February 2020

February 21, 2020

Pornography is Everywhere, so Why Can’t We Talk About the Addiction?

I recently wrote a collection of personal vignettes from people I interviewed who described how...

January 2020

January 17, 2020

The Pope Apologizes. We Should Too.

It was one of those ridiculous fake scandals you knew was going to be jumped...

January 16, 2020

A Love Letter to the Blessed Sacrament.

First things first; Happy 2020 everyone! I took a couple of weeks off from...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

2019 In Review: Examining Immigration, the Virgin Martyrs, Mission Work, the Amazon Synod and More.

Every month, I'm fortunate that I get to explore an important topical issue in depth...

December 29, 2019

What Is A Saint?

"Can someone be uncanonized? Asking for a friend." A Twitter follower asked that question in...

December 27, 2019

2019 In Review: Bishop Accountability

Over the next several days, I'll be posting links to some of the in-depth Catholic...

December 21, 2019

The Fulton Sheen Story: What We Know, So Far.

Fulton Sheen was supposed to have been beatified today. The Vatican signed off on the...

December 20, 2019

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Gets Cruel

To her credit, Sarah Huckabee Sanders apologized. But I don't believe for a second that...

December 09, 2019

A Catholic Sheriff Dimes Out His Own Parish to the White House on Immigration.

In Bristol County, Massachusetts, Sheriff Thomas Hodgson has made a name for himself over the...

December 05, 2019

Memento Mori: A Meditation on Death.

I'll admit, at first I thought it was a little weird, maybe even a tad...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

Catholic News Links for week of Nov. 25, 2019

1. The life of St. Mark Ji Tianxiang. I wrote about this 19th century Chinese...

November 22, 2019

The Abortion Wars May Never End.

Overturning Roe v. Wade has been the pro-life movement's holy grail almost from the moment...

November 20, 2019

This Week’s Catholic News Links

So, every week I'll be sharing links to some of my recent articles in Our...

November 17, 2019

Let’s Talk About Abortion. Seriously.

A journalist is used to seeing some off-the-wall comments underneath news stories. But one reader's...

November 13, 2019

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso Speaks Out Against Racist Rhetoric

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas has been a strong voice on behalf...

November 12, 2019

A Deeper Look at Cohabitation, and How the Catholic Church Can Respond

Hi everybody. This is my first blog for Patheos, and today I'll be writing a...