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A Synod of Shattered Expectations
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Confusion Worse Confounded
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Rejecting the World to Improve the World
Saturday, September 30, 2023
The World Beyond Our Window
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Beauty Will Save the World
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Get Ready for Some Explosions
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Cleveland Bishop Malesic Speaks the Truth
Monday, September 18, 2023
‘Yes’
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Psychopaths in Power
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Something’s Wrong in Rome
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
The Book of Genesis and Labor Day
Monday, September 4, 2023
St. Augustine’s Two Trees
Monday, August 28, 2023
An Echo and More Than an Echo
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Reflections on the Assumption
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Just Don’t Look
Monday, August 14, 2023
God Bless America in Slovakia
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
How to Lose a War
Friday, August 4, 2023
Lights in the East
Monday, July 31, 2023
Gratitude for Tradition’s Guarantee
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Is Catholicism ‘Inadequate’?
Monday, July 24, 2023
Summer Life Lines
Monday, July 17, 2023
How It All Smells
Saturday, July 15, 2023
If God is With Us
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Is a Free Society Stable?
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
The Catholic Side of Henry James and Hemingway
Saturday, July 8, 2023
Liberty, Modulo
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Just a Kick at Darwin
Friday, June 30, 2023
A Synod of No Surprises
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
The Synodal Church of “Me, Myself, and I”
Saturday, June 24, 2023
The Gentleman from Verona
Monday, June 19, 2023
Art for Whose Sake?
Saturday, June 17, 2023
You Do Belong Here
Monday, June 12, 2023
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
Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
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
