Brad Miner


Of Pilgrimages and Synodality

It could almost be a riddle: What’s the difference between a pilgrimage and synodality? Almost. There’s a long, legitimate place…

Most Unkindest Cuts: a review of ‘Journey to Bethlehem’

Director Adam Anders has made Journey to Bethlehem, a singing-and-dancing version of the Infancy Narrative in Luke’s Gospel, that seems…

Holiness Rather Than Peace

The Devil likes to make us stupid, particularly those of us who think we’re smart. He’s had a  very good…

Caravaggio in Rome

Mostly unrelated to the Synod on Synodality, my wife Sydny and I went to Rome in the last week of…

The Remedy for Our Confusions

Catholicism is a religion of Faith and Reason – and has a rich, centuries-long tradition of deep thought about God…

The Greatest Catholic Event Since Vatican II?

So. We’ve been told that the Synod on Synodality is not about theology. Or doctrine. Not about “the media’s” favorite…

There’s Got to Be a Better Way

So. We’ve been told that the Synod on Synodality is not about theology. Or doctrine. Not about “the media’s” favorite…

A United Nations of Exorcism: ‘The Exorcist: Believer’

Pretty sure I don’t have to offer a summary of the 1973 film The Exorcist, which you probably saw and,…

Homophobia & Homo Sapiens

Despite all the talk about the Holy Spirit at the Synod on Synodality, an objective observer would have to say…

Confusion Worse Confounded

If you wanted two words to describe the Synod on Synodality, the event that begins today in Rome, it would…