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The Francis Effect, Ten Years On
Monday, March 13, 2023
Progressivism and Power
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
What Should Be Said at a Funeral?
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Like a Virgin?
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Signs of Contradiction
Saturday, December 3, 2022
The Color of Dinosaurs
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
A Tale of Two Crises
Sunday, October 2, 2022
The “National Synthesis” on the Synod
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Something All Catholic Colleges and Universities Agree On
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Throwing St. John Paul II Under the Bus
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Notes from Poland 2022
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Juan Diego, Great and Small
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Building a Culture of Hope and Beauty
Monday, June 20, 2022
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Lionheart
Monday, May 23, 2022
The Absurd Magnificence of It All
Monday, April 18, 2022
Of New Things and Old
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Further Observations on “Preach the Gospel”
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Catholic Social Teaching: An Account of Reality
Saturday, January 29, 2022
Abortion and the Problem of the “Parental Project”
Friday, January 21, 2022
Following Which Science?
Monday, January 17, 2022
Conscience as Freedom from Truth?
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Papal Indulgence and the “Style of God”
Monday, January 10, 2022
He Brings True Peace – and a Sword
Friday, December 24, 2021
A Luminous Life of Benedict
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Pledging Allegiance to the New McCarthyism
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
The Curse of Meetings
Monday, November 15, 2021
Sustaining the Catholic “Thing”
Monday, November 8, 2021
Why No Science?
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Who is Like God?
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
The Pope and Civil Unions
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
The Labor for True Greatness
Monday, September 6, 2021
A Saint for the Times
Monday, August 23, 2021
Red Scare: “Christ Crowned with Thorns”
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Good as New
Thursday, August 12, 2021
Popes Come and Go
Friday, July 30, 2021
Pastoral Incoherence
Saturday, July 3, 2021
Signs and Wonders
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Astronomer of the Spirit
Monday, April 19, 2021
Underrating Jesus Christ
Thursday, March 11, 2021
“Quo Vadis?” – Always a Good Question
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Ordinary Time
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Martyrdom “in the Hands of God”
Friday, January 8, 2021
Recovering the Theology of Creation
Monday, December 28, 2020
Death Isn’t a Person
Thursday, December 17, 2020
The Church in Crisis
Monday, December 14, 2020
Righteous Gentile
Monday, December 7, 2020
Christian Gratitude
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Pope Francis Oversteps the Papal Office
Saturday, October 24, 2020
John Paul II’s Song of the Earth
Saturday, July 25, 2020
