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Africa’s Rational ‘Prejudice’

Wednesday, February 7, 2024


Why Theology?

Tuesday, February 6, 2024


Fiducia Supplicans’ Geography of Sin

Monday, February 5, 2024


Healing and the Sabbath

Sunday, February 4, 2024


St. Blase and Blessings

Saturday, February 3, 2024


The Catholic Church and Anti-Racialism

Friday, February 2, 2024


The Office of the Bishop is to Admonish Sinners

Thursday, February 1, 2024


Confessions of a Book Hoarder

Wednesday, January 31, 2024


Toward a Eucharistic Education

Tuesday, January 30, 2024


Catholic Schools Week 2024: A Time for Re-Commitment

Monday, January 29, 2024


As One Having Authority

Sunday, January 28, 2024


Living Among the Heathens

Saturday, January 27, 2024


Personal Catholicism

Friday, January 26, 2024


Nature, Grace, and Plum Brandy

Thursday, January 25, 2024


Gay Blessings and the Perils of ‘Authenticity’

Wednesday, January 24, 2024


Eucharistic Faith and the Survey

Tuesday, January 23, 2024


Untimely Reflections on ‘Hate’

Monday, January 22, 2024


Empire of Hope: A Review of ‘Cabrini’

Sunday, January 21, 2024


The Key to History

Saturday, January 20, 2024


A Provocative and Persuasive History of the Catholic Church

Friday, January 19, 2024


Multiple Texts Showing Cardinal Fernández’s ‘idée fixe’

Thursday, January 18, 2024


Skin in the Game

Wednesday, January 17, 2024


Faith, Rights, and Choice in Education

Tuesday, January 16, 2024


Reality Is Greater Than Their Ideas

Monday, January 15, 2024


Can What’s Done be Undone?

Sunday, January 14, 2024


Young Wafflers and the “Culture of Commitment”

Saturday, January 13, 2024


After Desolation

Friday, January 12, 2024


Some Hopeful, Tentative, New Year Predictions

Thursday, January 11, 2024


The Complications of (Bad) Philosophy

Wednesday, January 10, 2024


The Best and Brightest?

Tuesday, January 9, 2024


‘To Think with the Church’

Monday, January 8, 2024


In Today’s Church, Who Is Evangelizing Whom?

Sunday, January 7, 2024


The True Meaning of Christmas

Saturday, January 6, 2024


Golden Opportunities Missed

Friday, January 5, 2024


Ghosts of Christmas Past

Thursday, January 4, 2024


The New Year: A User’s Guide

Wednesday, January 3, 2024


By Their Fruits

Tuesday, January 2, 2024


The Peace That Is God’s Gift

Monday, January 1, 2024


Where are the Good Guys?

Sunday, December 31, 2023


Two Commentaries on the Blessing of ‘Irregular Couples’

/ Fr. Gerald E. Murray

Saturday, December 30, 2023


Saint Thomas Becket

Friday, December 29, 2023


The Holy Innocents

Thursday, December 28, 2023


Busyness and Christian Living

Wednesday, December 27, 2023


Why Can’t Every Day Be Like Christmas?

Tuesday, December 26, 2023


‘The World’s Desire’

Monday, December 25, 2023


Mary’s Question

Sunday, December 24, 2023


Will the Church Teach It?

Saturday, December 23, 2023


Even Atheists Still Set Up Christmas Trees

Friday, December 22, 2023


On the Public Meaning of Priestly Blessings

Thursday, December 21, 2023


Finding Christ in the Noise

Wednesday, December 20, 2023