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Christ Holds Things Together and Tells Us Who We Are
James V. Schall, S.J. / Joseph R. Wood
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Pope Francis at Eleven
Saturday, March 16, 2024
The Church of 2050
Thursday, October 6, 2022
The Mass According to Vatican II
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Not Knowing What We Do – and the Cross
Pope Benedict XVI
Friday, April 15, 2022
Benedict’s Mea Culpa
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Conscience as Freedom from Truth?
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
2022: There’s Good News and Bad News
Saturday, January 1, 2022
On Being Hopeful – and Happy – Warriors
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Creation, According to Ratzinger (and a couple of other guys)
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Faith – The Real Crisis
Sunday, November 1, 2020
Catholic Schools and the Common Good
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Palm Sunday without Palms
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Joe and Jorge’s Excellent Adventure: “The Two Popes”
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Intimations of Immortality in the Americas
Monday, November 18, 2019
Newman and Ratzinger
Saturday, October 5, 2019
WANTED: the Good Guys
Saturday, June 8, 2019
“Who Are You?”
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
On the Divine “Plan”
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
On News Reports
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
“Humanity as It Actually Is”
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Ox, the Ass, and Us
Monday, December 25, 2017
The Greatest Mutation in History
Sunday, April 16, 2017
God’s Concealment on Holy Saturday
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Gospel and Law according to Ratzinger
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Poetry
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Begging for Our Freedom
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
The Internal Forum and Catholic Remarriage
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Holy Saturday’s Silent Embrace
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Benedict XVI, Still Speaking
Friday, March 18, 2016
October Revolutions
Monday, August 24, 2015
John the Baptist and Public Scandal
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Only the Chaste
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Good Holy Saturday
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Lent 2015: Reflections and Suggestions
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Christ, Simeon, and the “Sides” of History
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Syria: Two Arguments Why to Say No
Friday, September 6, 2013
On the Private Conscience of Statesmen
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Learning and Faith
Monday, August 19, 2013
The Ground of a Real Christianity
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Francis, the Finger, and the Moon
Monday, April 1, 2013
Unrepentant Love
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Benedict Departs, but the Presence Endures
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The Absolutization of Man
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Music to Our Ears: a Review of the Pope’s New Book
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Liturgical Education
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Reading the Church Fathers and Doctors
Monday, June 14, 2010
Intrigue in Rome
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Does Christianity exist?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
