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Robert Royal
Dear Bishops: Clear Your Minds of Cant – and Can’t
Monday, June 14, 2021
Every Day Is Commencement Day
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Joe Biden and the Bishops after 100 Days
Monday, May 3, 2021
Astronomer of the Spirit
Monday, April 19, 2021
A Catholic Cathedral: “A Sort of World”
Monday, March 22, 2021
RIP: Jude Dougherty
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Xavier Becerra: Catholic Hitman
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Lent and American Catholic Exceptionalism
Monday, February 15, 2021
Bishops Misfire on “Racial Equity”
Monday, February 8, 2021
A Divine Comedy in 2021
Monday, January 25, 2021
Our First Anti-Catholic “Catholic” President
Friday, January 22, 2021
Another Sort of Reset
Monday, January 11, 2021
Hope against Hope
Monday, January 4, 2021
Christmas in COVID-Time
Thursday, December 24, 2020
New Year Resolutions
Monday, November 30, 2020
And So, We Continue
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Faith without a Hope?
Monday, November 2, 2020
Robert Royal: It’s Apocalyptic
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Monday, October 26, 2020
End Times
Monday, October 19, 2020
Breathing Fire
Monday, October 5, 2020
Lying for Justice?
Monday, September 21, 2020
Learning and Life
Monday, September 14, 2020
Our Labor Today
Monday, September 7, 2020
How It All Ends
Monday, August 24, 2020
The Politics of Heaven and Hell
Monday, August 10, 2020
The Once and Future Papacy
Thursday, July 16, 2020
We’re All on the Frontlines Now
Monday, June 29, 2020
Seattle, Columbus, and Historical Fictions
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Today Is Not That Day
Monday, June 15, 2020
Walking a High Road
Monday, June 1, 2020
Humanism – True and Untrue
Monday, May 18, 2020
Courage: Grace under Pressure
Monday, May 4, 2020
The Start of a Reckoning
Monday, April 20, 2020
Redeeming the Time
Monday, April 6, 2020
Our First Priority
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Plagues, Politics, Prayers
Monday, March 9, 2020
Safety Last
Monday, February 24, 2020
Amazonia Dreaming
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
A Watershed This Week?
Monday, February 10, 2020
Life, by the Numbers
Friday, January 24, 2020
Rome’s Shame in China
Monday, January 13, 2020
Comfort Ye, My People
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
The Vatican’s China Syndrome
Monday, December 2, 2019
Intimations of Immortality in the Americas
Monday, November 18, 2019
On Joe Biden and Judging Souls
Monday, November 4, 2019
Lost in a Dark Wood: Final Thoughts on the Amazon Synod
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Journalists without Ethics?
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Pachamama Sleeps with the Fishes
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Wheels within Wheels?
Monday, October 21, 2019
Incoherence in the Amazon?
Friday, October 18, 2019
