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November 2016

November 14, 2016

Shelter From the Storm

The truth is, I'm going to be just fine during the Trump Administration. I 'm holding...

November 11, 2016

Radically Catholic in the Age of Trump

For several years now, I've attended daily Mass at St. Clare Church, where the average...

November 08, 2016

An Election Day Lamentation: Mourning a Missed Opportunity

In politics, as in war, there is often only one favorable moment- an opportunity...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

What I Saw on the Porch

In temporary relief from the ongoing telenovella of our impending national election, we habitues of the Front...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

Passing the Test (for Cynthia)

[An old friend in pain recently emailed me to share some anguish and doubt. (S)he...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Novena for Peace: August 29 – September 6, For an End to the Injustice of Exploitation

Join us at Novena For Peace! General Intentions: For an end to the injustice of exploitation....

August 23, 2016

Forget Shea. This Guy Has Anger and Tone Issues

The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Therefore, whatever they tell you observe...

August 20, 2016

The Novena for Peace Begins Today

Eighty-one days of prayer for justice, peace, and racial reconciliation in the United States. We...

August 03, 2016

The Real Threat to Religious Liberty

Perhaps the greatest threat Trump presents to religious liberty is his abiding promise to form...

August 01, 2016

Praying for Miracles

Every summer for the past 19 years, the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma...

July 2016

July 06, 2016

Rediscovering the Golden String

Dear reader, be advised this will not be a standard book review. I have before...

July 04, 2016

Turning America Around

In 1976, the evangelical church of my youth celebrated the bicentennial of American independence. Since my dad...

July 02, 2016

What Wretches Feel: Neoliberalism is dying, we must replace it with something better

"The global economy is not working for the majority of people in our country and...

June 2016

June 09, 2016

Dumb Things I Used to Believe

Having come into the Church as a convert on Easter Sunday, 1986, I am what’s...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

A Saint for a New Socioeconomic Order

Saints, G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, are an antidote to whatever the age neglects. Such...

May 27, 2016

Junger’s Hunger, And Ours

A couple of years ago, I took some members of a large Rwandan refugee family to a...

May 24, 2016

Preparing for President Trump

What I’m about write is not an exercise in partisan advocacy. I belong to neither...

May 18, 2016

Book Review: “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People”

I write today for the purpose of recommending “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants...

May 11, 2016

The Fire This Time (Revisited)

This essay is adapted from the original which appeared at Vox Nova on August 23,...

May 06, 2016

Substituting Charity for Justice

This is the skillful attempt that is being made to substitute Philanthropy for Justice. There...

May 05, 2016

Gaudi’s Last Walk, a Poem by David Gordon

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May 04, 2016

Why You Might Not Want a ‘Strong Work Ethic’

Our society and morals are suffering because of this.

May 02, 2016

The Importance of Slow Architecture

I've not been to Las Vegas since my high school Latin group stopped there briefly...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

The Father of Catholic Social Teaching

“Charity is the Samaritan who pours oil on the wounds of the traveler who has...

April 28, 2016

I sometimes give money to bums

Sometimes we do things on the basis of an intuition and only later are we...

April 26, 2016

Who Does God REALLY Love?

I have a friend named Trish who frequently corners me after Mass to ask questions...

April 21, 2016

A Conversation on War, Torture, and the Limits of Evil – Part 4

[This post concludes Paul Grenier’s dialogue on torture and solidarity. You may also read part...

April 19, 2016

“Running In and Out with a Flag” (the Distributist League)

“Look here,” G.B. Shaw once gently chaffed his friend and debating partner G.K. Chesterton, “Is...

April 18, 2016

A Conversation on War, Torture, and the Limits of Evil – Part 3

[This post is a continuation of Paul Grenier’s dialogue on torture and solidarity. The first...

April 12, 2016

Amoris Laetitia, Vatican II, and “The Long Defeat”: A Defense of the Pope as Shepherd

There are many devout people, it seems, who imagine the Church a purely transcendent, an...

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