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Friday, December 1, 2023
The First Metaphysical Poet
Saturday, April 15, 2023
How His Passion and Death Become Ours
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Food Not Sex
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
This Physicist Believes in Miracles
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Biden’s Abortion Fig Leaves and Masks Are (Finally) Off
Sunday, September 12, 2021
Hell – and Vocations
Sunday, September 5, 2021
Hard Sayings
Sunday, August 22, 2021
A Little Clarity on Some Big Questions
Monday, June 28, 2021
We Know Not the Hour
Sunday, May 2, 2021
Biden and the Bishops
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Saint Juliana and Corpus Christi
Pope Benedict XVI
Sunday, June 14, 2020
What Video Masses Can Teach Us about the Mass
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Awaiting the Return of the Public Mass
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Real Presence
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Our First Priority
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Creation and Miracles
Thursday, January 9, 2020
The Communion Rail and Complementarity
Saturday, March 16, 2019
The Mueller Manifesto
Monday, February 11, 2019
The Church is Holy
Sunday, September 23, 2018
On to the Promised Land
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Policies, Procedures, Protocols
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Does Jesus Free Us for Lawlessness?
Sunday, July 15, 2018
To Appreciate the Eucharist
Thursday, May 17, 2018
The German Church Divided
Monday, May 7, 2018
A Curious Absence in “Gaudete et Exsultate”
Sunday, April 15, 2018
God Is Dead
Friday, March 30, 2018
Respecting People – and the Truth
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
The Mass & Nothing But
Friday, March 16, 2018
Three Bishops Set the Bar: What’s Next?
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
The Eucharist and Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Cardinal Burke on the Rule of Faith
Saturday, November 18, 2017
The Need for Fuller Pastoral Care
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Shooting the Orthodox Catholic Messenger
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
A Diptych for a Cardinal
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
The Stripping of the Altars
Thursday, April 13, 2017
The False and Dangerous Coccopalmerio Gambit
Saturday, March 18, 2017
When Cardinals Clash
Thursday, February 16, 2017
What’s Happening – and Where We’re Headed
Friday, February 10, 2017
Some (Not Entirely Random) Thoughts on “Amoris Laetitia”
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Holy Communion, Conscience, and the Christian Life
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Of Saints and Clowns
Thursday, June 16, 2016
The Internal Forum and Catholic Remarriage
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Reflections on “Amoris Laetitia”
Saturday, April 23, 2016
The Best Is Yet to Come for Catholicism
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Cardinal Sarah and Our Silent Apostasy
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Does Jesus Nod?
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Surviving, Striving, Thriving
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Divorced/Remarried: An Update
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Not With Unleavened Bread Alone
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
