December 2017


A Fresh Start for 2018

Sunday, December 31, 2017


A Blessed Smartphone?

Saturday, December 30, 2017


The Curious Progressive Love of Islam

Friday, December 29, 2017


Splinters and Beams 



Thursday, December 28, 2017


Here Comes That Dreamer

Wednesday, December 27, 2017


The Light in “Darkest Hour”

Tuesday, December 26, 2017


The Ox, the Ass, and Us

Monday, December 25, 2017


The World’s Desire

Sunday, December 24, 2017


The Paradoxical Structure of the Kingdom

Saturday, December 23, 2017


Pope expresses reform frustrations

John L. Allen Jr., Crux

Friday, December 22, 2017


Merry Christmas, Iraq

William McGurn, WSJ

Friday, December 22, 2017


Christmas Poem

G.K. Chesterton

Friday, December 22, 2017


Cdl Maradiaga: a financial scandal?

CNA

Friday, December 22, 2017


Cardinal Law: tragedy and scandal

Philip Lawler, First Things

Friday, December 22, 2017


On the ‘Infancy Narratives’

Friday, December 22, 2017


Christmas in Iraq

Peter Jesserer Smith, NCRegister

Thursday, December 21, 2017


Reframing democracy

Mathew Schmitz, First Things

Thursday, December 21, 2017


The story of the “Star Wars” island

Ed West, Catholic Herald

Thursday, December 21, 2017


Noël! Noël! Noël! Noël!

Hilaire Belloc

Thursday, December 21, 2017


Cardinal Law is dead

Robert D. McFadden

Thursday, December 21, 2017


Have Yourself a Very Subversive Christmas

Thursday, December 21, 2017


Francis: choosing not to have children a “bad disease”

Domenico Agasso Jr. Vatican Insider

Wednesday, December 20, 2017


The gift of not shopping

Wednesday, December 20, 2017


Thomas Aquinas College: “a view of hell”

Susan Svrluga, Washington Post

Wednesday, December 20, 2017


Four top LGBT myths

Chad Felix Greene, The Federalist

Wednesday, December 20, 2017


The dove descending

T.S. Eliot

Wednesday, December 20, 2017


Italy’s dark future

Edward Pentin, NCRegister

Wednesday, December 20, 2017


The Desert Flowers: The Gospel and Isaiah

Wednesday, December 20, 2017


Romano Guardini – beloved thinker, potential saint

Nicholas Wolfram Smith, NC Register

Tuesday, December 19, 2017


2 + 2 = 4. . .

David Warren

Tuesday, December 19, 2017


The joyful scandal of Advent

Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report

Tuesday, December 19, 2017


What is a Catholic Social Order?

P. J. Smith, First Things

Tuesday, December 19, 2017


Pope’s birthday party: pizza with sick children

Junno Arocho Esteves, CNS

Tuesday, December 19, 2017


On Feelings

Tuesday, December 19, 2017


Lead us not into temptation

NCRegister Editors

Monday, December 18, 2017


Concerning the Our Father

Simone Weil

Monday, December 18, 2017


Keeper of the keys

CNA/Catholic World Report

Monday, December 18, 2017


“Dictator” author: I’ll be unmasked

Dan Hitchens, Catholic Herald

Monday, December 18, 2017


Ex-Gay Catholic: homosexual lifestyle leads to devastation

Robert Oscar Lopez, The Stream

Monday, December 18, 2017


The season of prayer and witness

Archbishop Charles Chaput, Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Monday, December 18, 2017


In Other Words

Monday, December 18, 2017


A Christmas Reflection

Sunday, December 17, 2017


About Our Epidemic of Sexual Aggression

Saturday, December 16, 2017


Sad news on belief in Christmas

Pew Research Center

Friday, December 15, 2017


“Dictator” author: I’ll be unmasked

Dan Hitchens, Catholic Herald

Friday, December 15, 2017


Vatican Nativity scene causes stir

Cindy Wooden, CNS

Friday, December 15, 2017


The complexities of Poland

Ben Sixsmith, Catholic Herald

Friday, December 15, 2017


Defining Religion

Friday, December 15, 2017


The Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights

Thursday, December 14, 2017


Rejecting Deism

Pope Leo XII

Thursday, December 14, 2017