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December 2019

December 02, 2019

Friendship with the Poor

This essay by Audrey Davis originally appeared in Radically Catholic in the Age of Francis....

June 2018

June 26, 2018

There Is No Immigration Crisis, But There Is a Crisis in The American Catholic Church

There is no immigration crisis on the southern border. That's a lie. There is, however,...

June 08, 2018

Love and Citizenship

We ... view our work first as a religious obligation, but also as a practical...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Balancing the Works of Mercy and the Works of Justice

We are mostly comfortable middle class people exercising a sort of Catholic noblesse oblige, often with...

May 07, 2018

Ten Strong Things

Wisdom from the Babylonian Talmud (Baba Bathra 10a). Ten strong things have been created in...

October 2017

October 13, 2017

Babylon’s Falling: Recovering an Exilic Christian Consciousness

Babylon is indeed falling. But then, Babylon is always falling, which is to say that...

August 2017

August 21, 2017

The Word from Dr. Lowdown

Yesterday morning I picked up my friend, Issa Umi, at the suburban train stop. He...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

The Life of “An Apostle of Charity”

Raymond Sickinger, a professor of history at Providence College, has written an impressive new biography...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Francis meets TED, Talks About ‘Solidarity’

How wonderful it would be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were...

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...

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 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...

May 2016

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...

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 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...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

Mother Maria Skobtsova, Martyr of Sobornost’

By Matthew Franklin Cooper On the 31st of March, we celebrate the dies natalis of...

March 23, 2016

The Passion of the Poor

"Ah, the pain, the anguish, the sin and despair, the remorse, at not living as...

March 21, 2016

What is the Opposite of a Happy Death?

In a neighboring town I have a wonderful friend Nate who serves as pastor of...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

Francis Comes to Murderville

My friend Gerald called me about his recent trip down to Ciudad Juarez for the...

February 15, 2016

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year!

This started out as a post on the joy of receiving seed catalogues in deep...

February 03, 2016

“Why Are You My Friend?”

About four years ago I gave in to the temptation of speaking to a men's...

February 02, 2016

The Mystery of the Poor

“Christ is at once rich and poor: as God, rich; as a human person, poor....

January 2016

January 25, 2016

Encountering “the Other” on the Road

Strange as it may seem, my own journey towards the Dorothy Option began with Cormac...