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Friday, December 14, 2018
Robert Spaemann, the last great Catholic philosopher
Friday, December 14, 2018
Pope: “Gay” mentality un-Catholic
Thursday, December 13, 2018
With fife and drum
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Does saying “Merry Christmas” matter?
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Religious freedom 2, Obamacare 0
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
The pope’s warnings about homosexuals in the clergy
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
A short defense of authentic synodality
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Mary, Did You Know? Um, yes.
Monday, December 10, 2018
What NOT to expect from the Vatican summit
Monday, December 10, 2018
Rewarding China’s despotism
Friday, December 7, 2018
From Uncle Fultie to Uncle Ted
Friday, December 7, 2018
Avoiding another fiasco in February
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Missing the story on abortion decline
Thursday, December 6, 2018
St. Paul and “the mystery of evil”
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Advent is the remedy for the crisis
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Shakespeare’s pro-Catholic broadside
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
The bomb, the pill, and false security
Monday, December 3, 2018
Angels of Advent
Monday, December 3, 2018
Getting seminary formation right
Friday, November 30, 2018
February meeting as damage control?
Friday, November 30, 2018
Against empathy
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Trust Harvard?
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Cardinal Müller in . . . retirement
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
A transitioning culture
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Defending the Church’s commitment to reality
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Some hard truths about transgenders
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
The hour of the wolf
Monday, November 26, 2018
Who, or what, rules my life?
Monday, November 26, 2018
I Think Therefore I Thank
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Agreement with China looking even worse
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Led into temptation
Thursday, November 22, 2018
The struggle ahead
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Excommunicated Catholics are still Catholics
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Exorcism requests on the rise
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Synodality upended
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
The Vatican’s quashing of American initiative
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
The problem with human “dignity”
Monday, November 19, 2018
Pope Francis owns this now
Monday, November 19, 2018
Hope despite a failed meeting?
Friday, November 16, 2018
On being a militant Catholic today
Friday, November 16, 2018
Why the bishops can’t solve the crisis
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Boggled in Baltimore
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
China ramps up persecution in wake of Vatican deal
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
About the Lavender Mafia
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
The bishop’s job
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Islamized Britain
Monday, November 12, 2018
A Catholic funeral for Whitey Bulger?
Monday, November 12, 2018
Two types of schism
Friday, November 9, 2018
It’s worse than you think
Thursday, November 8, 2018
