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The Nails Still Go In

Sunday, May 8, 2022


The Absurd Magnificence of It All

Monday, April 18, 2022


Papal Abuse of Liturgical Law

Tuesday, March 22, 2022


Is Vatican II “Spent”?

Wednesday, February 16, 2022


Conscience as Freedom from Truth?

Tuesday, January 11, 2022


Papal Indulgence and the “Style of God”

Monday, January 10, 2022


The Baptism of the Lord

Sunday, January 9, 2022


2022: There’s Good News and Bad News

Saturday, January 1, 2022


The Cruel and Incoherent Further Restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass

Monday, December 20, 2021


A Luminous Life of Benedict

Tuesday, November 23, 2021


Happy Birthday, Immortal One

Wednesday, November 10, 2021


Sustaining the Catholic “Thing”

Monday, November 8, 2021


On Being Hopeful – and Happy – Warriors

Thursday, October 7, 2021


The Pope and Civil Unions

Wednesday, September 22, 2021


“La Douceur de Vivre”

Wednesday, September 15, 2021


A Saint for the Times

Monday, August 23, 2021


Benedict on the Assumption

Sunday, August 15, 2021


Popes Come and Go

Friday, July 30, 2021


Pastoral Incoherence

Saturday, July 3, 2021


Our Indefensible, Unsustainable Status Quo

Thursday, July 1, 2021


The Church’s Real, and Perceived, Authority

Sunday, June 20, 2021


President Biden and Public Scandal

Monday, May 17, 2021


On Sacrifice

Tuesday, May 11, 2021


Germany: On the Brink of Schism

Thursday, May 6, 2021


Towards a New, and Quite Different, Tocqueville

Friday, April 23, 2021


The American Church: Going, Going . . .

Saturday, April 17, 2021


The Icon of Holy Saturday

Saturday, April 3, 2021


Underrating Jesus Christ

Thursday, March 11, 2021


Martyrdom “in the Hands of God”

Friday, January 8, 2021


Recovering the Theology of Creation

Monday, December 28, 2020


Making Room at the Inn

Wednesday, December 23, 2020


Death Isn’t a Person

Thursday, December 17, 2020


Creation, According to Ratzinger (and a couple of other guys)

Sunday, November 15, 2020


Faith – The Real Crisis

Sunday, November 1, 2020


Our Virgilian Civilization (Or, the Devil Was the First Whig)

Sunday, October 11, 2020


Loving and Knowing Jesus

Sunday, October 4, 2020


The Author’s Voice

Sunday, August 23, 2020


Banish Sin, Transform the Church

Sunday, August 16, 2020


Buy Gold

Friday, July 31, 2020


The Once and Future Papacy

Thursday, July 16, 2020


Our Deeper Task

Thursday, June 25, 2020


Saint Juliana and Corpus Christi

Pope Benedict XVI

Sunday, June 14, 2020


Religious Indifferentism and Religious Pluralism

Sunday, May 10, 2020


Work in the Midst of Lockdown

Saturday, April 25, 2020


Palm Sunday without Palms

Sunday, April 5, 2020


What Priestly Celibacy Means

Monday, January 27, 2020


Retconning the Reformation

Thursday, January 23, 2020


Islam, Realism, and the Church

Tuesday, January 7, 2020


Alone in the Clouds: Malick’s “A Hidden Life”

Monday, January 6, 2020


“The Spirit of the Liturgy” at Twenty

Wednesday, December 11, 2019