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October 2026

October 09, 2026

Amoris Laetitia Deserves a Better Defence

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Mike Lewis labels the critics. He does not address the controversy. Introduction...

October 01, 2026

The Order We Did Not Make: The World We Received

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Did God Really Say The first act of the fall is a...

September 2026

September 20, 2026

The Clancy Effect: A Criminal Trial is Not a Culture War

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Introduction The Lindsay Clancy case has produced a remarkable amount of commentary,...

September 11, 2026

The Road We Have Not Walked: From Knowing to Walking Faith

Guest writer: Pilgrim. The Question That Justifies Itself A scholar of the law once stood...

August 2026

August 30, 2026

God’s Delight: Why a Perfect God Made a World

God's Delight Guest writer: Pilgrim. May the LORD rejoice in his works. (Psalm 104:31) The...

August 20, 2026

Echoes of the Logos: On Charlie Brown and Grace

Guest writer: Pilgrim. "The Evangelium has not abrogated legends; it has hallowed them." (J.R.R. Tolkien,...

July 2026

July 26, 2026

The Cosmic Jury: Part II – Cross-Examining the Architect

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Preface This is the second of two essays that are not an...

July 23, 2026

The Cosmic Jury: Part I – The Verdict on Design

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Preface This is the first of two essays that are not an...

June 2026

June 25, 2026

Genesis Reimagined: A Reflection on the Garden Experience

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Disclaimer The following narrative is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons,...

June 18, 2026

The Grammar and the Wound: Truth and Pastoral Reckoning

Introduction: The Reckoning of the Grammar Requires The Christian tradition proposes that the sexual act...

June 15, 2026

The Grammar the Body Speaks

Scripture, Experience, and the Flesh Introduction: The Question That Was Always There There is a...

June 12, 2026

The Question That Quietly Disappeared About Contraception

Scripture, Natural Law and the New Morality Introduction: A Consensus Nobody Argued About The surest...

June 09, 2026

“The Committee” Evaluates Moses and Jesus… The Results

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Two Listening Processes The Wilderness Consultation In the second year after the...

May 2026

May 29, 2026

The Foundation Stone Beneath the Ruin

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Three theologians, a Protestant, a Catholic, and an Orthodox monk, met...

May 15, 2026

On the Evasion of Argument and Accountability

Guest writer: Pilgrim. (A special thanks to Pilgrim for his continuing contribution to the blog,...

February 2026

February 26, 2026

Grace, Freedom, and the God Who Does Not Coerce

Guest author: Pilgrim. Author’s note: I happened upon this blog a year ago. Despite my...

February 15, 2026

Are We God’s Referees?

Guest writer: Pilgrim. What Jesus teaches about judgement, suffering, and why we are not God's...

February 03, 2026

Hard Texts: Catholics and the Violence of the Old Testament

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Introduction: The Case of Amalek (1 Samuel 15) Few passages of Scripture...

January 2026

January 22, 2026

Memorandum from Below: Notes Toward a Successful Apostolate

Submitted anonymously. Slubgob, Under-Secretary for Ecclesiastical Affairs. I am permitted (with considerable hesitation from my...

January 13, 2026

Two Parables, One Pattern: Mercy, Grace, and Transformation

Guest writer: Pilgrim. He who created you without you, will not save you without you....

January 09, 2026

History as Chiasm: Christianity Against Progress and Despair

Guest writer: Pilgrim The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the...

November 2025

November 27, 2025

The Smoke of Satan: Post-Conciliar Confusion

Guest writer: Pilgrim Introduction In 1972, while home from university, my father told me Pope...

November 14, 2025

The Gospel Cannot Be Changed With a Footnote

Guest writer: Pilgrim The Loss of Faith from Humanae Vitae to Amoris Laetitia So Peter...

October 2025

October 14, 2025

Beyond Performative Hand-Wringing: Response to Mike Lewis

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Mike Lewis' recent article "Straight Answers: The Reasons Behind Restricting the Latin...

August 2025

August 17, 2025

War, Moral Principles, and Contemporary Conflicts

Guest writer: Pilgrim Introduction In Catholic moral theology, the morality of an act depends on...

July 2025

July 20, 2025

The Call to Holiness and Catholicity

Guest writer: Pilgrim Introduction This post examines how the essential marks of holiness and catholicity,...

June 2025

June 16, 2025

A Father’s Heart: Reflections on Fatherhood (Guest Writer)

Guest writer: Pilgrim Introduction Yesterday was Father’s Day. As usual my children and grandchildren gathered...

April 2025

April 18, 2025

Questioning the Shroud of Turin – Guest Article

Guest writer: Zizzer Zazzer Zuzz How’s it hanging? [This post is a continuation from/reply to...

November 2024

November 21, 2024

Let the Bishops Individually Demonstrate Docility

Guest contributor: Todd Flowerday Recently, Dennis identified docility as a trigger word. He cited one...

September 2024

September 02, 2024

God’s Icon – The Shroud of Turin

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Introduction As someone who was given an image of Christ’s face from...