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Needed: More Good Science
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
‘Christian Nationalism’ and the ‘Catholic Thing’
Monday, April 15, 2024
No One Envies Those Who Suffer
Monday, March 25, 2024
How to Feel Pain
Friday, March 22, 2024
Gratitude in the Midst of Grief
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Synodal News and a Papal Saga
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Lows and Highs of Good Citizenship
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Ghosts of Christmas Past
Thursday, January 4, 2024
The New Year: A User’s Guide
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Ratzinger, Vatican II, and the Idea of Synodality
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Same-Sex Blessings as Superstitions
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Beauty Will Save the World
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Does the Shoe Fit?
Thursday, September 7, 2023
St. Augustine’s Two Trees
Monday, August 28, 2023
Everything Solid Melts into Air
Thursday, July 20, 2023
The Gentleman from Verona
Monday, June 19, 2023
The Triune God
Sunday, June 4, 2023
The New Form of His Presence
Sunday, May 21, 2023
To What Shall We Compare the Present Age?
Monday, May 15, 2023
No Hyenas for Us, only Saints
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
The Two Lords of the World – and Us
Monday, April 24, 2023
Getting Serious about the Synod
Monday, April 17, 2023
God (Safely) in a Box?
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
The New Adam and the New Woman
Friday, April 7, 2023
The High Stakes of Creation
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
The Francis Effect, Ten Years On
Monday, March 13, 2023
Looking Forward to Lent
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Progressivism and Power
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
What Should Be Said at a Funeral?
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
In Gratitude: Cardinal George Pell
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Benedict XVI’s Legacy: Theology Rooted in the Logos
Saturday, January 7, 2023
The Bells of Germany
Thursday, January 5, 2023
What’s in a Name?
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Cause of Our Joy
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Catholics at the Midterms
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
What’s Really Needed for a “Eucharistic Revival”?
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Gender Ideology Comes to Notre Dame
Monday, October 24, 2022
A Piecemeal Vatican III?
Monday, October 17, 2022
The Church of 2050
Thursday, October 6, 2022
A Tale of Two Crises
Sunday, October 2, 2022
The “National Synthesis” on the Synod
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
The Lay Vocation
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Mother Teresa’s Vocation at 100
Monday, August 15, 2022
Throwing St. John Paul II Under the Bus
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Latin and God’s Holy People
Thursday, August 4, 2022
The Mass According to Vatican II
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Torn apart by Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Eschatology, Not Utopia
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Papal Possibilities, Anno Domini 2022
Monday, June 6, 2022
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
