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The Gospel in Lent
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Is Anyone Listening?
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Looking Forward to Lent
Thursday, February 23, 2023
A Means of Disowning the Past
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
A Road to Nowhere
Thursday, January 26, 2023
In Gratitude: Cardinal George Pell
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Apples and Oranges – and Abuse
Stephen P. White
Thursday, January 12, 2023
On Fatherhood and “Healthy Masculinity”
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Living Bread Come Down from Heaven
Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap.
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Listen to the Communion of Saints
Thursday, November 3, 2022
A National Study of Catholic Priests
Thursday, October 20, 2022
A Piecemeal Vatican III?
Monday, October 17, 2022
The Church of 2050
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Two Commentaries on Bishops “Blessing” Same-Sex “Unions”
Stephen P. White and Fr. Gerald E. Murray
Thursday, September 22, 2022
The Lay Vocation
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Late August Stirrings in Rome
Saturday, August 27, 2022
The Church Before Herod
Thursday, August 11, 2022
Notes from Poland 2022
Thursday, July 14, 2022
The Pope’s Peculiar Take on the Council – and America
Thursday, June 16, 2022
A Red Hat for San Diego
Thursday, June 2, 2022
The Nature of Our ‘Angels’
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Joe and Others after ‘Roe’
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Further Observations on “Preach the Gospel”
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Hope and Dying
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
The Synod Comes to Catholic University
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Benedict’s Mea Culpa
Thursday, February 10, 2022
What’s at Stake with the Synod?
Thursday, January 13, 2022
A Divisive Approach to Liturgical “Unity”
Thursday, December 30, 2021
Rejoice, Indeed!
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Restoring Trust after the Abuse Crisis
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Who Benefits from the Status Quo?
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Rome Remembers
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Speaking of the Synod
Thursday, September 9, 2021
What Ever Happened to the “Lay Moment”?
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Language Barriers
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Division among the Bishops, or a Blessing in Disguise?
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Signs and Wonders
Thursday, May 13, 2021
‘Centesimus Annus’ turns 30
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Go, and Die for Your People
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Not a Loaf, but Leaven
Thursday, April 1, 2021
What Covers a Multitude of Sins?
Thursday, March 18, 2021
The Catholic Project, Two Years On
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Mercy, but about What?
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Our Catholic President
Thursday, January 21, 2021
A Catholic Moment
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Making Room at the Inn
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Biden and the Bishops
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Christian Gratitude
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Warring Spirits
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Amy Barrett and the Intolerable
Thursday, October 15, 2020
