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Doctrine and the Cure of Souls
Saturday, April 13, 2024
How to Feel Pain
Friday, March 22, 2024
The Single Vocation?
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
The Mundane, Not Just Miracles, Converts the World
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
A Cure for Therapeutic ‘Cures’
Sunday, March 3, 2024
C.S. Lewis and the Development of Doctrine
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Living Among the Heathens
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Young Wafflers and the “Culture of Commitment”
Saturday, January 13, 2024
‘To Think with the Church’
Monday, January 8, 2024
A Parable for Our Time
Sunday, October 8, 2023
We No Longer Talk about Such Things
Monday, September 11, 2023
Let’s Build, But Expect No Help
Sunday, September 3, 2023
The Bondage of “Deciding for Yourself”
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
The Dissenting Voice within Us
Friday, August 18, 2023
The Importance of Place
Saturday, August 5, 2023
How It All Smells
Saturday, July 15, 2023
The Politics of Satan
Friday, July 14, 2023
A Sister of Perpetual Indulgence
Saturday, June 3, 2023
On Clericalism
Friday, June 2, 2023
To What Shall We Compare the Present Age?
Monday, May 15, 2023
What the Imposing of Ideological Fantasies Reveals
Saturday, May 6, 2023
A Church Deep in Love
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Giving New Heart to the Wounded
Saturday, March 25, 2023
On Hearing Shakespeare
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Two Commentaries on the McElroy Controversies
John M. Grondelski / Leila Marie Lawler
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
The Only Way to a Clean Heart
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Conversations with ‘Their God’
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
It’s a Catholic Thing?
Saturday, February 25, 2023
The Irony of Goodness
Friday, February 24, 2023
Progressivism and Power
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
The Trainwreck of White-Collar Sympathy
Saturday, November 26, 2022
To Stay in the Fight
Monday, November 21, 2022
Build Then, Always
Saturday, November 12, 2022
The Problem with ‘Recreational’ Sex
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Connecting the Generations
Saturday, October 8, 2022
The Long-Term Struggle for Hearts and Minds
Friday, September 30, 2022
Even Wearing Black the Church Shines
Sunday, September 11, 2022
Imagine . . . What We Already Are
Thursday, August 25, 2022
Latin and God’s Holy People
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Priests Are to Be Watchmen
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Clarifications after ‘Dobbs’
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
A Lifeless Pontifical Academy
Saturday, July 2, 2022
The Vatican Confesses
Thursday, June 23, 2022
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Thursday, June 9, 2022
A False Rebuke from Dubuque
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Progressive Christianity: The Same Old Tides
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Our Disastrous Failure to Follow the Science
Thursday, March 31, 2022
The Four Deaths
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Where the Light Doesn’t Shine
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Dominion Over All the Earth
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
