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An Easter lament for closed churches
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Francis approves group to create Amazonian church
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Should the Vatican send thanks to Australia?
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Why Holy Week is Holy
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Psalms in time of pandemic
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Moral guidance during a pandemic
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Corona of Thorns
Monday, April 6, 2020
Irony in John’s Gospel
Friday, April 3, 2020
Sacraments in a time of virus
Friday, April 3, 2020
Americans pray but stay away from religious services due to COVID-19
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Rutler resilient in Hell’s Kitchen
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Catholics on the shutdown
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
COVID-19 and canon law
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Getting to know the Fathers
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Another view
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Church: A non-essential?
Monday, March 30, 2020
Watching Mass during Passion Week
Monday, March 30, 2020
What is a plenary indulgence?
Friday, March 27, 2020
Preparing for rain days – like today
Friday, March 27, 2020
Coping with the “sanitary dictatorship”
Thursday, March 26, 2020
It isn’t the Black Death
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Church also suffering from empty rhetoric
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Creation, fall, and coronavirus
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
The Origins of Quarantine in Lent
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Ratzinger: Fasting from the Eucharist
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Keep churches open!
Monday, March 23, 2020
The ecclesial politics of a plague
Monday, March 23, 2020
Homeschool
Friday, March 20, 2020
Four virtues for this crisis
Friday, March 20, 2020
The irony of St. Corona
Thursday, March 19, 2020
The new death calculus
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Facing the pandemic as a Catholic
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
What’s next for Cardinal Pell?
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Biden betrays fellow Catholics
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
The time of the virus
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
The 1918 pandemic and churches
Monday, March 16, 2020
Self-quarantined? How to make a spiritual Communion
Monday, March 16, 2020
Pope weak in Argentine abortion fight
Friday, March 13, 2020
Coronavirus gives Vatican extra time for. . .?
Friday, March 13, 2020
Scenes from Rome’s lockdown
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Chinese propaganda calls it “the Italian virus”
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Cancelling Masses not the answer to virus
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
A last chance for Australian justice
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
On the Transfiguration and us
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Pope to Chinese Catholics: Be good citizens
Monday, March 9, 2020
Daniel Vanier – and what comes next
Monday, March 9, 2020
What would a real Catholic politician look like?
Friday, March 6, 2020
Down with ugly churches!
Friday, March 6, 2020
Justice for Pius XII
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Theological commission reports on controversial issues
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
