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A Lesson in Kenosis from the Solar Eclipse
Beneath my profound experience of the solar eclipse is a rare lesson in kenosis, a “self-emptying” or “complete or total gift of self.”
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A Shift in Perspective This Mother’s Day
Mothering has been reduced to a transactional performance in our digital villages, and it’s time to shift that perspective.
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David Fincher’s Hitman as Everyman
David Fincher's film, The Killer, now on Netflix, once again updates Fight Club’s existential crisis—a “mirror of justice” for our time.
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A Parable from the Science Textbook: Grace Like Electricity
When we receive God’s grace like a flow of electrons and pass it on freely to others, we help to unite all in the divine electrical circuit.
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He Saw the Cloths and Believed
Let Lent Be Lent!
Pro-Life Christians: Now Is the Time to Shout from the Rooftops
It’s Not Your Life, It’s Not Your Death, It’s Not Your Choice
Catholics Cannot Be Anti-Semites
Ivy League Presidents and the Collapse of Moral Reasoning
My Experience of the Synod
A Day at the Synod
As I Leave for the Synod on Synodality
Meet the New Goddess, Same as the Old Goddess
When Did “Conversion” Become a Dirty Word?
Thoughts on World Youth Day in Lisbon
Oppenheimer’s Frown
World Youth Day and Converting Everyone to Christ
St. Irenaeus and the God Who Doesn’t Need Us
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Christians Have an Obligation—and a Way—to Stop Antisemitism
The “Wild and Perilous” Catholic Balance on the Environment
Would Extraterrestrial Intelligence Disprove Christianity?
The 3 Countercultural Promises of a Priest
If 2+2=4, Then God Exists
AI Relationships, Screen Time, and Loneliness
Capturing a Misfit: A Review of “Wildcat”
The Infinite Dignity of the Disabled
Dignitas Infinita: What’s the Gist?
Author Sarah Law on St. Thérèse, Literature, and the Sacred
4 Takeaways for Us Today from St. Catherine of Siena
Human Dignity and the Abuse of Language
Navigating AI with Lonergan’s Transcendental Precepts
Aesthetic Criticism vs. Frui in the Liturgy
Systole and Diastole: Action and Contemplation
Trans America: The Historical Roots of Contemporary Gender Ideology
How to Believe in God: A Philosophical Approach for the Sincerely Disposed Skeptic
Veil to Unveil: Aquinas on the Mystery of the Mass
A Ratzingerian Reading of Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun”
How Should Catholics Think About the Immigration Crisis?
Fandom in Search of Enchantment
What Can I Do? Mary Delaney and Malta Camp USA
Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson on Dogma
Katy Carl on Contemporary Catholic Fiction: Part II
Katy Carl on Contemporary Catholic Fiction: Part I
Is Art Worth Dying For? The Story of the Monuments Men
Divine Mercy Sunday, the Crown of Our Easter Celebration
Recovering the Common Good for Ethical AI Design
Modern Technology: The World as Standing Reserve
He Saw the Cloths and Believed
Developing a Vision of the Good
Awaken the Sleepers
The Blood of the Lamb and the Light in Their Eyes
Contemplating the Cross
Where Charity and Love Are, God Is There
Are We in a Post-Truth World?
We Can Console Jesus
Flawed Objections to Marian Apparitions
A Parable from the Science Textbook: The Magnet of the Trinity
Prenatal Testing and Abortion in a Post-Roe World
Abortion, Slavery, and the Image of God
Dom Raso: SEAL Team Six Operator, Warrior for God
Theology in Community: Meet Dr. Richard DeClue
