Joshua Whitfield

May 30, 2019

Column: You Must Read 1984!

Truth is a writer’s first responsibility. To conquer the lie, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said.
May 27, 2019

Column: What Will Memorial Day Make of Us?

What are we to make of Memorial Day?
May 22, 2019

Column: A Girl’s Love of Baseball

Maggie Whitfield interviews Melanie Newman of the Salem Red Sox…
May 8, 2019

Preaching and Obedience

Whose Catholicism is it? Whose Catholic Church?
May 6, 2019

Column: Loving Uncertainty

My uncle took my father’s place when my parents divorced.
April 22, 2019

Column: Notre Dame reminds us we’re more spiritual than we think

It is hard to describe the loss of Notre Dame. When the poet Rainer Maria Rilke lived in Paris, each evening on his way home, he stopped as he crossed the Siene on the Île de la Cité to watch the sun set over Notre Dame. The darkening ancient towers silent against the new, awakening, electric […]
March 23, 2025

Homily: On Perishing as They Did

March 5, 2025

Ash Wednesday Homily: On Lent and Sister Lucy Dosh

I keep praying that what we do here matters.
March 2, 2025

Homily: On Integrity, or On Not Falling Into the Pit

February 9, 2025

Homily: The Speed of Christians

February 2, 2025

Homily: Natural Light and the Light of Christ

Our modern way of life, the pace of our contemporary world, has done much to obscure the ancient way of Christ.
January 12, 2025

Homily: The Sacramental Point

If you step back to consider the whole—that is, the whole liturgical year—you will begin to understand what the Church is teaching us Sunday by Sunday.