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What’s Right about ‘Infinite Dignity’
Friday, April 12, 2024
Creation and the Order of Love
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Pope Francis and the Demise of Ascetic Christianity
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Synodal News and a Papal Saga
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Pope Francis at Eleven
Saturday, March 16, 2024
‘God’s Truth Will Win – Ukraine Will Win’
Friday, March 15, 2024
Dead Synodality
Saturday, February 24, 2024
A Long Way to Go
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Memo to Tucho
Monday, February 12, 2024
St. Blase and Blessings
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Reality Is Greater Than Their Ideas
Monday, January 15, 2024
Can What’s Done be Undone?
Sunday, January 14, 2024
The New Year: A User’s Guide
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
On the Public Meaning of Priestly Blessings
Thursday, December 21, 2023
A Francis (George) Generation?
Thursday, November 30, 2023
My ‘What to Do about the Synod’ Checklist
Monday, November 20, 2023
Beware Church Use of ‘Transgender’ Language
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Three Items from the Bishops Meeting in Baltimore
Thursday, November 16, 2023
‘Transsexual Baptism’: Two Perspectives
Eduardo J. Echeverria / Fr. Brian A. Graebe
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
The Rupnik Case: How is this still happening?
Thursday, November 2, 2023
The Greatest Catholic Event Since Vatican II?
Monday, October 30, 2023
The Religion of Global Climate Change
Thursday, October 26, 2023
There’s Got to Be a Better Way
Monday, October 23, 2023
Pope Francis and Care for Creation
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Homophobia & Homo Sapiens
Monday, October 16, 2023
Same-Sex Blessings as Superstitions
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Untangling Some Crucial Questions
Saturday, October 14, 2023
The Door Stop
Friday, October 6, 2023
A Synod of Shattered Expectations
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Confusion Worse Confounded
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Pope Francis and Schism Re-Visited
Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap.
Monday, October 2, 2023
Ideology’s Blind Spots
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Pope Francis and the Death Penalty
Saturday, September 16, 2023
‘Outing’ the Liberal Catholic Project
Friday, September 15, 2023
We No Longer Talk about Such Things
Monday, September 11, 2023
Does the Shoe Fit?
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Something’s Wrong in Rome
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Leaders, Good and Otherwise
Thursday, August 31, 2023
The Revenge of Unintended Consequences
Thursday, August 17, 2023
The 30th Anniversary of ‘Veritatis Splendor’
Sunday, August 6, 2023
Is Catholicism ‘Inadequate’?
Monday, July 24, 2023
We Need to Discuss Just War Theory
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
The Gentleman from Verona
Monday, June 19, 2023
You Do Belong Here
Monday, June 12, 2023
Caravaggio’s Road to Damascus
Monday, June 5, 2023
On Clericalism
Friday, June 2, 2023
Living through an Apocalypse
Monday, May 8, 2023
The Two Lords of the World – and Us
Monday, April 24, 2023
Getting Serious about the Synod
Monday, April 17, 2023
The Francis Effect, Ten Years On
Monday, March 13, 2023
