Catholicism
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The Best Nuncio We’ve Had Thus Far
The announcement that Archbishop Christoph Pierre will succeed Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò as Apostolic Nuncio to the…
Why Amoris Laetitia Wouldn’t Have Helped Me
Like waves breaking on rock, polishing and shaping by force, the Catholic faith sands and sculpts my…
On Sex Without Deliberate Consent
In his recent Apostolic Exhortation, the Holy Father puts a question mark in the margin of the…
The Merciful Grace of the Truth
At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults,…
Always Fear, Always Love
Shame and bitterness overcame me when the priest said that my parents were not married. They had…
Francis Delivers
In the days leading up to Francis’s recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laeititia, one would have thought that…
A Stubborn Givenness
The Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, Amoris Laetitia, brings into the open a disturbing trend in this…
After the “G-word” has been spoken
In the early Church, witnesses to the faith who had been persecuted and tortured but not killed…
How the Church Failed Fishtown
The sign outside the church lists a single Sunday Mass time. The bulletin provides details on the…
The Gospel of Jesus on Sexual Binaries
Rachel Held Evans is once again arguing against “The False Gospel of Gender Binaries.” Regrettably, she does…
In Honor of an Uppity Nun
On one of my first visits to Rome some years ago, I stepped into an elevator on…
Things That Can’t Change
When the Second Vatican Council was putting the finishing touches on one of its key documents, the…
The Catholic Enlightenment: Yesterday and Today
When the eminent historian Peter Gay wrote The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism in the 1960’s,…
Passion Play
At his ascension, Jesus told the eleven disciples that they would receive the Spirit to be his…
Awakenings
The following is being delivered at Brigham Young University today, March 22, 2016. I’m here today because…
