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Newark’s Cardinal Tobin: Defund lawless ICE
[Catholic pastoral messaging in the Trump era]
5 hrs ago
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‘Jesus wasn’t nice’ and other half-truths
[LONGREAD: against Christian contempt for niceness]
Jan 14
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The Simple Memory Aid in My Pocket that Is Totally Not Anything But a Symbol
[on the opacity of overly self-conscious symbolism]
Jan 12
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Zohran Mamdani, Trump, and Bishop Barron’s selective political outrage
[What does, or doesn’t, take a bishop’s breath away?]
Jan 8
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Under Leo XIV, the Church’s public voice rings with new strength
[U.S. bishops speak out powerfully on immigration; Pope Leo XIV meets with cinema world representatives]
Nov 21, 2025
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How the White House is a sacred building…
[…and Trump’s East Wing destruction is a species of sacrilege: LONGREAD]
Nov 4, 2025
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Charlie Kirk quotes, Cardinal Dolan, and Saint Paul
[one Cardinal Dolan quote and a bunch of Charlie Kirk quotes]
Sep 22, 2025
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Christianity as an interpretation of history
[LONGREAD: Judaism, Jesus, and the mouse that roared]
Sep 6, 2025
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For Labor Day: Catholic social teaching, labor, and movies
[excerpt from my entry in the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy]
Sep 1, 2025
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Carlo Acutis: What a saint-to-be can tell us about our times
[Film review and director interview]
Aug 27, 2025
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Time-machine history tourism: Theological reflections
[What would YOU choose to witness?]
Aug 7, 2025
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Mary Magdalene’s bad rap
[how the popular picture of Mary Magdalene as a penitent with a notoriously wanton sexual past developed—and what’s wrong with it]
Jul 22, 2025
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