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The Long and the Short of It
Monday, May 16, 2022
Who Are the Abortion Extremists?
Monday, May 9, 2022
Making the Desert Bloom
Monday, May 2, 2022
Riding the Waves of History
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Culture Wars and International Affairs
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
What Is to be Done?
Monday, April 11, 2022
Religion – and the Pope – Still Matter
Friday, April 8, 2022
The Sciences and Homophiliac Synodality
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Of New Things and Old
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Theology and Human Conflicts
Monday, March 28, 2022
A Week of Big Changes
Monday, March 21, 2022
The Psalms in Times of War
Monday, March 14, 2022
The Pope, Violence, and Just War
Monday, March 7, 2022
Ukraine, the Political and the Personal
Monday, February 28, 2022
Can Church Divisions Be Healed?
Monday, February 21, 2022
Because It’s Hard
Monday, February 7, 2022
Our Darkling Plain
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Following Which Science?
Monday, January 17, 2022
Papal Indulgence and the “Style of God”
Monday, January 10, 2022
Prophecy, Optimism, Hope 2022
Monday, January 3, 2022
He Brings True Peace – and a Sword
Friday, December 24, 2021
Notre Dame, Restorations, et le Moi
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
To Heal the Eyes of the Heart
Monday, December 6, 2021
Getting Thanksgiving Right – Redux
Thursday, November 25, 2021
A Luminous Life of Benedict
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Dear Bishops, Ban Them
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Sustaining the Catholic “Thing”
Monday, November 8, 2021
The Pope and the President
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Ever Ancient, Ever New
Monday, October 25, 2021
Seriously, Synodal?
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Who Needs Synodality?
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
A Roman Weekend to Remember
Monday, October 11, 2021
The Parents’ Rebellion
Monday, October 4, 2021
The Pelosi Dialogues
Monday, September 27, 2021
Out of Africa
Monday, September 20, 2021
Our Largest, Unacknowledged Prejudice
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
The Labor for True Greatness
Monday, September 6, 2021
Cucumber Time
Monday, August 30, 2021
A Saint for the Times
Monday, August 23, 2021
Did Jesus Conquer Death?
Monday, August 16, 2021
Summer Stillness
Monday, August 9, 2021
From the First Three Minutes to Us
Monday, August 2, 2021
Grandparents, Great-Grandparents, and the Great Tradition
Monday, July 26, 2021
The Strange Conversion of Wallace Stevens
Monday, July 12, 2021
Liberty, License, Gratitude
Monday, July 5, 2021
A Little Clarity on Some Big Questions
Monday, June 28, 2021
Our American Catholic Rubicon
Monday, June 21, 2021
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
