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To Stay in the Fight

People often ask me: What can I do about the current state of the Church and the world? The question…

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We’ve Got Issues – and They’re Cosmic

I’ve been re-reading St. Augustine’s City of God lately, both for the TCT course I’m teaching this Fall but also…

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A Self-Destructive Synod

The General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops issued the Working Document (WD) for the Continental Stage of the Synod…

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What’s Said, What’s Communicated

Earlier this week, Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, who heads the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities noted that in a recent…

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The Color of Dinosaurs

A sentence in Chateaubriand’s Genius of Christianity, truly one of the masterworks of apologetics, caught my attention recently: “God might…

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A Piecemeal Vatican III?

Our reading today is from the Book of Benedict XVI (A Life: Volume Two), in which he recounts to biographer…

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So What’s to Fear?

Many people have been puzzled by the Synod on Synodality – the “walking together” that seems to have some figures…

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Reading Augustine’s ‘City of God’. . .and More

In 410 A.D., the Visigoths invaded and sacked Rome, causing great destruction and widespread loss of life. Foreign armies had…

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Perspectives on the Italian Election

The results of the recent election confirm that Italy is a basically conservative country, its roots on the Right, notwithstanding…

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