Theology
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Abortion on Trial
Artists these days are required to either be atheists or tacitly agree to not, in Alastair Campbell’s…
Shakespearean Meta-Politics
I take as my text Shakespeare’s Richard III. Shakespeare wrote two tetralogies of English history. The first…
Thoughts on the Instrumentum Laboris
Over the past several months, I’ve received scores of emails and letters from laypeople, clergy, theologians, and…
You Are Peter
You may know this story, but it bears repeating. On October 27, 1984, Cardinal Jaime Sin of the…
Maintenance vs. Mission
Just when the Long Lent of 2002 was coming to a boil in March of that year,…
A Letter From Young Clergy
This letter to the members of the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational…
The Gold Virgin
What do the children of divorce know? Do they close their eyes at the moral messes in…
Saving Synod-2018 From Itself
Anyone looking for a remedy for insomnia might try working through the Instrumentum Laboris, or “working document,”…
We Will Not Yield
In 1977 my parents came to the difficult conclusion that there was no future for them and…
The Imperative of the Imperium
In “The End of the Imperial Episcopate,” Fr. Jay Scott Newman speculates about the Church’s current situation. One…
No Salvation Without the Other
In the aftermath of Archbishop Viganò’s fresh detailing of Catholic clerical scandal and his call for the…
Unmasking Monsters
Midway through Revelation, John sees a pantomime of the Gospel’s beginning, enacted in the sky (Rev. 12).…
Fr. Gavancho’s Fate
In July, a new associate pastor arrived at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in downtown Santa Barbara,…
St. Michael, Pray for Us
I’m a student of pubs. Maybe it’s because my dad owned one. Maybe it’s because they smell…
Full-Immersion Catholicism
As this Catholic annus horribilis continues to unfold, perhaps some good news is in order; first, a little…
