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March 2021

March 10, 2021

Four Takeaways from Oprah’s Interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

People are inclined to defend institutions rather than persons, especially when the institution is long-lived,...

February 2021

February 21, 2021

Rush Limbaugh Would Never Have Succeeded In an Ethical Society

Right-minded folks should never have responded to slurs directed against AIDS sufferers, non-white children, and...

February 10, 2021

We Need to Be Honest When We Talk about Abortion

Our entire conversation about abortion and life ethics needs to change from a culture-war melee...

January 2021

January 31, 2021

Who Speaks for the Church? And Which Church?

We are still not willing to address with brutal honesty how gravely the church, our...

January 17, 2021

Yes, It’s About the White Supremacy

In this case, the first and maybe most lasting images we got cast the “rioters”...

January 12, 2021

Conspiracy Theories, Alternate Reality, and the Perils of Totalitarian Religion

A sacramental imagination should engage us with what is real and present. It should not...

January 07, 2021

A Martyrdom Of Our Own Making

By claiming persecution right now, some Christians have embraced the evil that is being fought...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

What Is Wrong With the Christian Religion?

White supremacists should hate and fear all that the church stands for. Yet look how...

December 14, 2020

This Has Been a Test

What will happen if another pandemic comes along – which it likely will – that...

December 09, 2020

In Advent, We Practice Holy Patience – and a Holy Impatience for Justice

During Advent, it is deeply important for us as committed disciples of our Lord to...

November 2020

November 26, 2020

The Economy of Francis – Both Saint and Pope

The hungry, homeless, unemployed, underemployed, refugees, and all destitute fellow human beings desperately need, and...

November 02, 2020

Yes, There Is a Place in the Democratic Party for Pro-Life Voters

Faced with the alternative of an administration that has proven itself willing to flout fundamental...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Does Voting “Pro-Life” Actually Save Lives?

If human life is the thing that you value most, you have to do more...

October 22, 2020

Should We Be Gatekeeping Feminism?

Of course, maybe you are white enough, privileged enough, rich enough, so that Trump's policies...

October 15, 2020

Reality and Unreality: The Questioning of Amy Coney Barrett

We are now all living in the world of Donald Trump. And that world is...

October 06, 2020

“There are *Four* Lights”: Trump and the Gaslighting of America

Trump’s “five-light” propaganda machine broadcasts its message 24–7. Pick any topic, e.g., COVID-19, climate change,...

September 2020

September 21, 2020

We Shall Have Our Anger. We Shall Have Our Sorrow

People tell us that sorrow and anger are unproductive , and I don't believe it....

September 17, 2020

No, Flannery O’Connor Has Not Been Canceled

I think many of O’Connor’s fans can handle the vision of redemption that she presents...

September 07, 2020

Facing this Election, We Must Recall the Church’s Teachings on the Dignity and Rights of the Worker

When we talk about "good Catholic" employers, and "good Catholics" schools or universities, we should...

August 2020

August 08, 2020

Toxic Masculinity: What It Is, and What It isn’t

What we are objecting to is not men. We are objecting to immorality. And for...

August 03, 2020

Why Supremacy Never Delivers Freedom: Recovering the True Meaning of the Cross

The arc of history will indeed bend again towards justice if Christians everywhere can in...

August 01, 2020

How White Men Lost the Meaning of Redemption

by guest writer Sean O’Conaill Part I – Redemption as Freedom “The cross stands...

July 2020

July 26, 2020

The Value and Necessity of Inter-Religious Dialogue

Religious communities, whatever else they are about, are about love, hope and faith. They are...

June 2020

June 16, 2020

Why Are We Flying “Treason’s Flaunting Rag”? A Military Historian Considers

The legacy of the slaver's rebellion is one that haunts our nation to this day....

June 04, 2020

Yes, White People Need to Say Something About Racial Issues – But We Don’t Need to Say a Whole Lot

And finally, here’s a simple question. Can you say “Black Lives Matter”? Can you say...

May 2020

May 25, 2020

The Demand to Open Churches Is the Opposite of Christ-Like

Jesus taught that we ought to be willing to die for him. Yet here we...

May 22, 2020

Today, I Am Ashamed of the United States

How can we call ourselves a “Christian nation” when, instead of standing in collective mourning...

May 15, 2020

What Are We Willing To Sacrifice, To Get Through the Pandemic?

Will we be willing to sacrifice some of the pleasures of our precious “American” way...

April 2020

April 20, 2020

In The Midst of Pandemic, The Personal Is Political, More than Ever

What they are actually demanding, even if they do not realize it, is not freedom...

April 19, 2020

Christians And Jews: What Binds Us Together?

By guest writer Gregory Eran Gronbacher I’ve repeated this wry aphorism so many times...