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History, Sacred and Not
Monday, March 11, 2024
There Is No AI Shortcut to Real Education
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Grow Up
Friday, July 28, 2023
‘Dobbs’ a Year Later: The Lady in the Hat and the Vase
Monday, June 26, 2023
The Life and Times of ‘La Duchesse’
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Non-Establishment of the Church
Monday, January 9, 2023
The Church of 2050
Thursday, October 6, 2022
The Power of the Powerless
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
What Is Normal?
Friday, June 17, 2022
People Are Decisive
Saturday, May 28, 2022
True Confessions
Thursday, April 28, 2022
70 Bishops Warn of Germany’s “Synodal Path”
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Our “Land of the Free” Today
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Ukraine and the Western Conscience
Thursday, January 27, 2022
2022: There’s Good News and Bad News
Saturday, January 1, 2022
The Promise and Peril of Synods
Thursday, December 9, 2021
A Candle for Roger
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Praying for the Pope
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Two Cheers for Pessimism
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Women of Character, Then and Now
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Eat the Disabled? Follow the Science
Saturday, July 24, 2021
Our Real Pandemic
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Towards a New, and Quite Different, Tocqueville
Friday, April 23, 2021
The One Necessary Thing
Friday, April 16, 2021
Things Worth Dying For
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Some Thoughts on Words and their Meanings
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Ordinary Time
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Memory and Gratitude
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
People of the Lie
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Raised by Wolves
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
White Dwarf
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Yes, We Have No Bernanos
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Escape Clause
Saturday, July 4, 2020
All Conflict, All the Time
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Redeemer of Man
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Justinian’s Flea, Redux
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
To Make All Things New
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Thoughts on the Lay Vocation
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Salvation is from the Jews
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
