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Getting Serious about the Synod
Monday, April 17, 2023
Where Are the Catholic Schools in a Synodal Church?
Thursday, October 13, 2022
The “National Synthesis” on the Synod
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Papal Possibilities, Anno Domini 2022
Monday, June 6, 2022
Divisions among Our American Bishops
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
The Synod Comes to Catholic University
Thursday, February 24, 2022
‘Dobbs’ and the Legacy of Justice White
Saturday, February 19, 2022
What’s at Stake with the Synod?
Thursday, January 13, 2022
A Beginning by the Bishops, Not the End
Thursday, November 18, 2021
How Homosexuality Harms the Church
Friday, October 1, 2021
What’s Done in Darkness Will Come to Light
Thursday, July 29, 2021
A Little Clarity on Some Big Questions
Monday, June 28, 2021
Dear Bishops: Clear Your Minds of Cant – and Can’t
Monday, June 14, 2021
Joe Biden and the Bishops after 100 Days
Monday, May 3, 2021
The American Church: Going, Going . . .
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Bishops Misfire on “Racial Equity”
Monday, February 8, 2021
Our Catholic President
Thursday, January 21, 2021
A Pastor on the Vaccines
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Biden and Communion
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS
An Anonymous Catholic
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Coming Soon. . .
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Are These Not My People?
Thursday, June 11, 2020
The Widow’s Mite
Thursday, February 6, 2020
In Search of a Silver Bullet
Thursday, January 30, 2020
What the Church Brings to Politics
Thursday, January 16, 2020
What to Watch for in the New Year
Thursday, January 2, 2020
A Changing Church
Thursday, December 19, 2019
What the Bishops Also Must Do
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Our “Sophisticated” Bible Translators
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Where is the Fides – and the Ratio?
Sunday, September 8, 2019
A Rough Summer in the Empire State
Thursday, August 15, 2019
The Virtues of Reform
Thursday, August 1, 2019
The Long Year
Thursday, June 20, 2019
A Solid Foundation for Reform
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Unfinished Business
Thursday, May 9, 2019
The Crisis of Ecclesial Communion
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Giving Due Process Its Due
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Some Action – Maybe – Starts Today
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Too Big to Succeed
Friday, August 17, 2018
Enough Already
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Of Popes, Bishops, Priests – and the Bridge Too Far
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Racism and Catholicism
Saturday, September 2, 2017
The Right Thing for the Wrong Reasons
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Should Catholics Support the Anti-Islamophobia Campaign?
Saturday, August 5, 2017
45-Million Aborted Children: Only a Statistic?
Sunday, January 29, 2017
On the Matter of Catholic Voter Guides
Thursday, October 20, 2016
A Crisis of Faith, not of Worship
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Giving Reasons for Faith
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Pornography: Our Greatest Ongoing Spiritual Threat
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Why Not Spiritual Direction?
Thursday, June 25, 2015
