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The Trinity the Synod Needs

It’s often been said that our civilization is based on a kind of historical trinity – Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome…


Treasure in Heaven

I grew up in a secular household. What’s worse, my parents demanded I attend church – a Methodist church –…


Perspectives, Paradigms, and Catholicity

As the first full week of the final session of the Synod on Synodality begins today, little is emerging that…


Some Talking – and Listening – Points

Sin, corporate sin, was abundantly confessed this past week during an opening penitential rite for the synod in Rome. And…


The Beginning of the End Or. . . .

As the second (and final?) session of the Synod on Synodality opens today, many people are still asking: What is…


No Bad Boys: ‘Heart of a Servant, the Father Flanagan Story’

It was originally called “The City of Little Men,” when the Irish-born Fr. Edward J. Flanagan founded the refuge for…


Dubia from an Atheist

A sometimes-tart critic of this site – a self-described atheist who reads this page regularly for reasons unknown – came…


The Curious Career of Cultural Christianity

Among the many abrupt twists and turns in our online-driven, unstable social life, one of the oddest is the recent…


Imitating ‘Reagan’

Dennis Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller imitate Ronald and Nancy Reagan in a new movie about the life of America’s…


For the Time Being

So, the National Conventions are over. Labor Day is only a week away, after which there will be no rest…