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February 2025

February 15, 2025

My review of Ross Douthat’s new book, Believe.

I am happy to report that I just published in World Magazine a review of...

March 2024

March 02, 2024

What’s Wrong with Moral Relativism?

I'm a regular speaker for the Thomistic Institute, an academic institute of the Pontifical Faculty...

October 2023

October 06, 2023

Catholic Integralism and Its Discontents

I recently read two important essays critical of Catholic integralist thought. (You may ask, "What...

January 2023

January 06, 2023

New Paper: Dignitatis Humanae: Navigating the Legacy of Vatican II

On January 19, 2023 I will be delivering an invited paper at the annual meeting...

August 2022

August 08, 2022

New article in BYU Law Review: “Separated at Baptism: What the Mortara Case Can Teach Us About the Rejection of Natural Justice by Integralists and Progressives”

I am happy to announce the publication of a new article in the BYU Law...

July 2022

July 11, 2022

The Heart Has Its Reasons – a reflection on 15 years after my reversion to Catholicism

April 28, 2022 marked 15 years since I returned to the Catholic Church. Last week...

July 04, 2022

My contribution to The New Apologetics: Defending the Faith in a Post-Christian Era

I am happy to report the release of a new book published by Word on...

June 2022

June 29, 2022

Rick Garnett: Anti-Catholic Attacks After Dobbs

University of Notre Dame law professor Rick Garnett has just published a piece over at First...

March 2022

March 23, 2022

Beware Modern Enthusiasms – an essay in America Magazine

"Beware Modern Enthusiasms" is the title of an essay I just published in the April...

October 2020

October 31, 2020

Reformation Day and Schism

"Reformation Day and Schism" is an essay I published 10 years ago in The Catholic...

October 27, 2020

“Thomas Howard: Evangelical Catholic” by David M. Howard, Jr.

Many readers of this blog have heard of the great Catholic literary scholar, Thomas Howard....

August 2020

August 28, 2020

The brilliance of St. Augustine on grace and free will

Today, August 28, is the Feast Day of St. Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430). The most...

August 13, 2020

That Good Old Baylor Line That Led Me Back to Catholicism

Earlier today it occurred to me that on August 24 I begin my 18th year...

August 07, 2020

New Books Network podcast interview on “Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant” (Baylor UP, 2019) |

I'm happy to report that Hope Leman's interview of me at New Books Network is...

July 2020

July 19, 2020

Inclusivity, religious conviction, and gratitude: on the expectations of non-Christian students at a Christian college, and being a Catholic prof at a Protestant/Baptist school

Baylor University, the institution that has employed me since 2003 and at which I am...

November 2013

November 08, 2013

November 9 – My Late Grandmother’s 100th Birthday

Tomorrow, November 9, would have been the 100th birthday of my maternal grandmother, Frances Guido,...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Essays on the relationship between Evangelicals and Catholics

In this latest installment for the week of Reformation Day (October 31), what follows are...

October 28, 2013

Five doctrinal issues that divide Catholics and Protestants

In my second installment for the week of Reformation Day are links to five articles...

August 2013

August 06, 2013

“Doting Thomists: Evangelicals, Thomas Aquinas, and Justification”

That's the title of my most recent article published in the The Evangelical Quarterly 85.3 (July...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

The Anchoress, Elizabeth Scalia, on how Pope Francis is smashing the media narrative on the Church and gay rights

Read it here at First Things. She writes: What did Francis say? Well, at this writing,...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Sic ’em Francis: Baylor Student’s Papal Translation Project

One of our most gifted students at Baylor University, Emily Edmondson, has created a new...

March 15, 2013

On Confirmation: A Letter to Darby Beckwith

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. This is how...

March 13, 2013

Habemus Papam Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis)

March 13, 2013

Habemus Papam Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (Pope Paul VI)

March 12, 2013

Habemus Papam Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (Pope Pius XII)

March 12, 2013

Habemus Papam Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (Pope John XXIII)

March 12, 2013

Habemus Papam Albino Luciani (Pope John Paul I)

March 12, 2013

Habemus Papam Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

March 12, 2013

Habemus Papam Carol Wojtyla (John Paul II)

March 06, 2013

Daily Conclave Report

Robert Royal, editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing, the online magazine to which I contribute every...