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Randall Smith
Randall B. Smith is a Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His latest book is From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Body.
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Abortion and the Genocide of the Black Community
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Educated for – What?
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
The Absurd Magnificence of It All
Monday, April 18, 2022
The Works of God Made Visible
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Ukraine’s Challenge – to Us
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Ukraine for the Long Haul
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
The Liturgy Wars
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
What Happened After Vatican II?
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
It Has No Place Here
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Conscience as Freedom from Truth?
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
An Incarnational World
Monday, December 27, 2021
Deconstructing the Deconstructors
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Pornography and the Castration of Young Men
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Pledging Allegiance to the New McCarthyism
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Why No Science?
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Cry Havoc! Threats to Right-to-Life Groups
Monday, October 18, 2021
When Are We Human?
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Put Them (Churches) Back the Way They Were
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Your Life Is Not Just About You
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Plow that Field
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Abraham’s Sacrifice
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Those Disastrous Trade-Offs
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Mission, Character, and Institutions
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
From My Mother’s Womb, You Are My Strength
Sunday, July 4, 2021
The Antidote to Social Despair
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
The Catholic Way of Memorials
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Popes, Bishops, Slavery – and Us
Saturday, May 15, 2021
The Green Grocer’s Sign
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Resurrection of the Dead
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Recommendation Day
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Whited Sepulchers
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Lent in the Desert
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
On Litmus Tests and the Common Good
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Beware Your Enemies, Lest You Become Like Them
Thursday, January 28, 2021
The Day After
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Twelve Days of Christmas for a Family Man on a Budget
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Rights Talk vs. Dialogue
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Money and the Idea of a University
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Is Riot Turnabout Fair Play?
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
On What Foundation is the University Built?
Monday, November 9, 2020
On the Nature of Complicity
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Amy Barrett: What’s Really at Stake
Thursday, October 8, 2020
The Social Dilemma
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Lifestyle Liberalism Takes Money – Lots of It
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Ed Tech and the Transformation of American Education
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
What is God Doing Now?
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
The Artificial Jesuit
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Cancel Culture is Coward Culture
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
“A Republic, If You Can Keep It”
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
