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Memory and Identity

Tuesday, June 6, 2023


Caravaggio’s Road to Damascus

Monday, June 5, 2023


A “Common” Easter

Wednesday, May 31, 2023


Simple – and Not So Simple – Gifts

Monday, May 29, 2023


To What Shall We Compare the Present Age?

Monday, May 15, 2023


Living through an Apocalypse

Monday, May 8, 2023


A Great Recent Ancestor

Monday, May 1, 2023


On Crossing the Rubicon

Thursday, April 27, 2023


The Two Lords of the World – and Us

Monday, April 24, 2023


Where is Christ Hiding?

Friday, April 21, 2023


Getting Serious about the Synod

Monday, April 17, 2023


The Queen of Queer Hill

Friday, April 14, 2023


Byzantine Catholicism and the Fight for Ukraine

Thursday, April 13, 2023


Sunday Morning Came

Sunday, April 9, 2023


Mystery Week

Monday, April 3, 2023


The High Stakes of Creation

Tuesday, March 28, 2023


Another ‘Revolution’ in the Church

Monday, March 27, 2023


Quit Your Grumbling

Friday, March 24, 2023


Imagining a Heretical President

Saturday, March 18, 2023


The Francis Effect, Ten Years On

Monday, March 13, 2023


The Ruinous Rhetoric of ‘Synodal Interpretation’

Monday, March 6, 2023


Having a Good/Bad Lent

Monday, February 27, 2023


The Synodal Way’s Great Expectations

Monday, February 13, 2023


A Means of Disowning the Past

Tuesday, February 7, 2023


Is Conservative Jurisprudence Renouncing Moral Reasoning?

Saturday, February 4, 2023


Our Greatest Social Injustice?

Wednesday, February 1, 2023


Tolle, Lege

Monday, January 30, 2023


Justice Alito Knows His Place

Saturday, January 28, 2023


A Road to Nowhere

Thursday, January 26, 2023


Everything Begins in Mysticism

Monday, January 23, 2023


Life, By the Numbers, Revisited

Friday, January 20, 2023


Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Monday, January 16, 2023


In Gratitude: Cardinal George Pell

Saturday, January 14, 2023


Benedict XVI’s Legacy: Theology Rooted in the Logos

Saturday, January 7, 2023


Our Addiction to Agitation

Friday, January 6, 2023


Penitential Revival, Anyone?

Wednesday, December 28, 2022


The Victory That Surmounts the World

Sunday, December 25, 2022


What Child Is This?

Friday, December 23, 2022


Of Witness and the Only True Safety

Thursday, December 8, 2022


Piety for Things

Wednesday, December 7, 2022


A Different Kind of Catholicism?

Monday, December 5, 2022


Everything is (not) Broken

Wednesday, November 30, 2022


Having and Not Having

Monday, November 28, 2022


To Stay in the Fight

Monday, November 21, 2022


Living Bread Come Down from Heaven

Wednesday, November 16, 2022


Mary the Great

Monday, November 14, 2022


We’ve Got Issues – and They’re Cosmic

Monday, November 7, 2022


A Self-Destructive Synod

Monday, October 31, 2022


What’s Said, What’s Communicated

Thursday, October 27, 2022


The Color of Dinosaurs

Wednesday, October 26, 2022