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August 2026

August 17, 2026

Fighting Over the Rhetorical Woman

Everyone Knows What a Woman Is—Until the Definition Becomes Inconvenient Currently, the WNBA (Women’s National...

March 2026

March 17, 2026

The Gospel According to Talarico: Moral Truth Reimagined

I live in Texas. Here, most people identify as politically and socially conservative. Of course,...

February 2026

February 28, 2026

Why I Often Criticize Progressive Catholicism

Recently, one critic chastised me for my continued criticism of progressive Catholicism. His accusation rests...

February 18, 2026

The Church Cannot “Walk Back” Reality

In my last article, Falsifying Reality: Dante, Truth, and Gender Identity, a Catholic commenter named...

February 12, 2026

Falsifying Reality: Dante, Truth, and the Gender Identity

Many students of literature and poetry recognize Dante’s Inferno as the first part of The...

January 2026

January 18, 2026

If Progressive Catholics Were Totally Honest…

By Theo Pastoral I think the time has come for progressive Catholics to be totally...

December 2025

December 08, 2025

The Unanswered Question: Natural Law and Same-Sex Attraction

Guest contributor: Pilgrim A Study in Moral Discourse My starting position is that Catholic moral...

October 2025

October 28, 2025

The “Culture War” Raging Over Catholic Anthropology

In a recent exchange on my comment thread, I asked a self-described Catholic progressive (Todd...

September 2025

September 01, 2025

Sex Assigned at Birth: From God or Man?

I began thinking about this article before the tragic events in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August...

August 2025

August 25, 2025

A Church That Affirms the World Instead of Converting It

Quick note to any reader wondering about my absence: I’m doing fine. With the start...

August 03, 2025

Progressive Catholicism: The Human Person Reimagined

With this article, we arrive at the third of five in a series exploring what...

July 2025

July 28, 2025

In Progressivism: Each Person Becomes Their Own Magisterium

In my last article, I addressed the progressive Catholic penchant for sentimentality. I showed that...

July 15, 2025

What If… Progressive Catholics Got Their Way?

In my articles, I aim to articulate the Church’s magisterial teachings in relation to current...

July 11, 2025

Restoring the Sacred Design of Man and Woman

Guest writer: Pilgrim In our modern world, there's a lot of confusion about who we...

July 09, 2025

No, The Resurrected Do Not Engage in Sexual Activity

I recently came across an article by fellow Patheos blogger Talley Cross on the Evangelical...

June 2025

June 24, 2025

(Supreme Court) Justice and Gender-Affirming Care

As most of my readers know, I often write about what I consider the dangers...

June 14, 2025

Why Truth Is Not Bullying (Even When the Crowd Says So)

Recently, I received some pointed criticism—both in my comment section and on another Patheos blog—accusing...

June 04, 2025

Should Catholics Celebrate Pride or Fidelity?

Pride Month is once again here. This month marks a time when our cultural elites...

March 2025

March 26, 2025

The Culture War is Spiritual Warfare

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the...

February 2023

February 08, 2023

In the Darkness, the Diocese of Des Moines Offers Some Light

In past articles, I sounded the alarm concerning a darkness looming within the Church. For...

August 2022

August 24, 2022

Conservative Catholics are Behind the Times and Must be Silenced

Conservative Catholics are behind the times and must be silenced. Or that is how it...

April 2022

April 30, 2022

Affirming Identity: Disagreement or Personal Attack?

Is my Catholic identity invalidated by non-Catholics who cannot accept that which I hold to...

April 23, 2022

Jesus “Banned” from Twitter

Would Jesus' comments on gender and sex get Him banned from Twitter for “hate speech?”...

January 2022

January 27, 2022

Gender Identity: Gnosticism’s Newest Face

Is it possible for a biological male, let’s call him Sam, to be a woman...