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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
Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap.
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
A Piecemeal Vatican III?
Monday, October 17, 2022
A Somewhat Modest Proposal
Friday, October 14, 2022
So What’s to Fear?
Monday, October 10, 2022
Reading Augustine’s ‘City of God’. . .and More
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Perspectives on the Italian Election
Saturday, October 1, 2022
A New Sign of Our Times
Monday, September 26, 2022
Two Commentaries on Bishops “Blessing” Same-Sex “Unions”
Stephen P. White and Fr. Gerald E. Murray
Thursday, September 22, 2022
The “National Synthesis” on the Synod
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
On the Great Good Way
Monday, September 19, 2022
Hidden Art
Thursday, September 15, 2022
No Bark, No Bite
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
The Uses of Presumption?
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
The Feast of Forgiveness
Monday, August 29, 2022
Some Reflections on the New Red Hats
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Late August Stirrings in Rome
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Reflections on the Rosary
Sunday, August 21, 2022
