Brad Miner


The Synodal Way’s Great Expectations

The bishops of Europe – together with dozens of clerical and lay participants – met in Prague last week as…

Missing: ‘Vatican Girl’ on Netflix

began watching Vatican Girl, the Netflix documentary about the 1983 disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, when it was released last year….

Tolle, Lege

For a year and more, I’ve been trying to learn Biblical Hebrew. Studying Hebrew is not like learning French or…

Everything Begins in Mysticism

This month marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of a great modern Catholic genius. Like many such geniuses, he…

Life, By the Numbers, Revisited

As a thought experiment, let’s assume something I would never accuse TCT readers of being: that you are materialist and utilitarian. You…

Dead Men Do Tell Tales

dway through the first volume (2019) of his Prison Journal, Australian Cardinal George Pell records that: “Every type of Catholic…

What Child Is This?

s not the season for arguments, but rather for warmth, generosity, family, fellowship, even a little indulgence of what at…

Halo of the Son: Tintoretto’s Last ‘Last Supper’

In a recent column about Mary Magdalene, I wrote that my favorite portrait of the great saint was by Domenico…

Of Witness and the Only True Safety

Popular processions and pilgrimages are among the most beautiful Catholic practices all over the United States and the world. (I…

Having and Not Having

Years ago, I was watching some late-night television talk show (why I would do such a thing,  lying down, unless…