Jesus

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 […]
November 24, 2019

Homily: Killing Kings and Freedom

To listen to this homily click here. The death of the king marked year one in the French Revolution, the beginning of the republic and a new era—an era, of course, of freedom.
February 13, 2020

Canceling Jesus

Today we’d “cancel” Jesus. Let’s just be honest.
February 24, 2020

Love: A Theological Meditation on Lent

For Saint Augustine, love proved everything.
February 28, 2020

The Harmonies of Lent

Lent, fundamentally, is about harmony.
March 6, 2020

To Persevere in the Way of Christ

“Alas, poor man! is the celestial glory of so small esteem with him, that he counteth it not worth running the hazards of a few difficulties to obtain it?” -John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress        
March 12, 2020

The Water to End Thirst

The image is thirst. The miracle is water.