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January 2021

January 14, 2021

Reflections on the Epiphany Insurrection

It is also painfully obvious that the police took much longer to restore order than...

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...

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 22, 2020

Make a Difference: Proclaim “Good News of Great Joy”

By guest writer Tony Magliano The commercialism of Christmas can easily tempt us to...

November 2020

November 14, 2020

The Real Significance of Writing King Lear in Quarantine

We need Lear; we need to be able to rant and rave on a blasted...

November 09, 2020

Voting Out Fascism Is Just the Beginning

There can be no compromise with an ideology that places the demands of the few...

September 2020

September 27, 2020

Theological Foundations, and the Importance of Tradition

Tradition, then, in the broadest sense, is the language in which a community recognizes itself...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

What Do You Mean When You Say a Politician is “Pro Life”? A Historical Comparison

Every presidential election year, the same debate returns to Catholic circles: may a...

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...

July 2020

July 18, 2020

It Is Clear By Now that We Are Not All In This Together

The world watches in horror as our numbers go up. And the world closes its...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

Right Wing Leaders Propose Human Sacrifice To Prop Up the One Percent

What people like Dan Patrick and R.R. Reno are proposing is literally human sacrifice. That...

January 2020

January 18, 2020

Know Your Dogwhistles! Recognizing Anti-Semitism Is the First Step

I have written before about how there is an antisemitism problem among Catholics of the...

January 10, 2020

Reducing Abortion Rates and Protecting Women’s Rights Are Goals That Can and Should Co-Exist

The important thing is, we do agree that a right to life is real, and...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

A Year-End Retrospective: Looking Back on Failure

It is our work, heavy work, tiring work, work where we often miss our turning...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

Silent No More: A Survivor’s Message of Gratitude

For those who have not believed me, who have openly mocked me, called me a...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

Ecological Atonement, Labor as Spirituality

There’s a certain irony in the fact that our unrestrained domination, on the basis of...

October 14, 2019

The Catholic Imagination, the Amazon Synod, and the Problem of Colonization

We are missing out. We are losing the opportunity to learn from Catholic artists who...

October 06, 2019

Shaking The Dust From My Shoes: A Survivor’s Testimony

My faith became intrinsically interwoven with Fr Sam. To reject him was to reject God....

June 2019

June 30, 2019

It’s Not the Church That Has Let Me Down – It’s the Clergy

The church has not let me down but popes and bishops have, too often and...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

Mystery vs. mystery: A Note on John Gray’s Seven Types of Atheism

This is the deep difference between Gray and myself: for me, for us Christians, the...

April 11, 2019

Capital Punishment For Abortion Is Not Pro-Life

While the legislation is unlikely to pass, given extensive resistance - including from some pro-life...

February 2019

February 13, 2019

The Pope’s Upcoming Summit Needs To Do a Full Accounting Of the Cover-up Of Sexual Abuse

Pope Francis sits during the traditional greetings to the Roman Curia at the Vatican in...

February 13, 2019

Why Are People So Unwilling To Do What Is Proven Effective For Protecting Unborn Life?

From the time I was old enough to vote, I knew one thing for sure:...

January 2019

January 21, 2019

On Covington Catholic: Broader Context, More Factors, Still Problematic

The March for Life isn't supposed to be a Trump rally. If you turn it...

November 2018

November 03, 2018

Things Journalists Wish You Knew About What They Do

You got into this because of this weird obsession you have with seeking the truth,...

October 2018

October 11, 2018

Two Catholic Churches – I’m Staying With One

by guest contributor H. Lillian Vogl I’ve been noticing lately that there are two deeply...

October 10, 2018

What Does Wonder Know? The 2018 Festival of Friendship

This was my third year of being involved in Revolution of Tenderness’s cultural event, the...

September 2018

September 10, 2018

Abuse, Clericalism, and the Culture Of Obedience

Obedience to God is one thing. But how do we know when it’s God? Why...

August 2018

August 16, 2018

Yes, There Is An Institutional Problem: Power

The problem is power. Any concentration of power in a single demographic will lead ultimately...

June 2018

June 22, 2018

Some Dead White Males on the Topic of “Not Taking Sides”

Whatever you are, this is one of those times in history in which refusing to...