Friday, July 19, 2024
My English Tour
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Septimus Decimus Anniversarius
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Review: Unresolved Tensions in Papal-Episcopal Relations
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
A June Miscellany
Greetings friends! My mind has been crowded lately with a lot of different subjects, many of which I will likely never get around to blogging about. So, time to clear my thoughts with a miscellany of half-formed ruminations. I might develop these into future posts, or not...who knows. Enjoy my brain dump!
Sunday, June 09, 2024
Grace: Here a Little, There a Little
Sunday, June 02, 2024
The Importance of Spiritual Equilibrium
I am becoming increasingly convinced that finding an internal spiritual equilibrium is the supreme difficulty most Catholics face in their spiritual life. By spiritual equilibrium, I mean the ability to balance opposing tendencies while keeping one's peace—balancing knowledge and uncertainty, law and grace, mercy and justice, faith and seeking, suffering and redemption, sin and forgiveness, and so on. A balanced spiritual life requires these apparently contrary ideas to be maintained in a harmonious equilibrium, where nothing is overemphasized and nothing neglected. Virtue consists in finding a mean between extremes, and so does spiritual equilibrium. It requires us to have the faith fully integrated across the various facets of our lives.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
The Real Apparitions are the Friends You Made Along the Way
Thursday, April 25, 2024
The Four Griefs of Wisdom
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Seeking Essayists for Latin Mass and the Youth Project
Saturday, April 13, 2024
What a Piece of Work is Man
Saturday, April 06, 2024
Grace Blossoming Everywhere
Friday, March 29, 2024
The Context of Cajetan's Comments on Praying for a Pope's Death
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Do Not Reproach a Man Who is Turning Away from Sin
Saturday, March 09, 2024
Review of Angel Studios' Cabrini
Sunday, February 18, 2024
In Memoriam: Bob Christian (1941-2023)
Monday, February 05, 2024
February Hiatus
Hey friends! I'm probably going to be taking a blogging hiatus for February. Don't worry, I am fine, not burned out or nothing like that (if anything, I've got more writing ideas swirling in my head than ever before). I have some professional matters I need to clear off my plate and some writing commitments for other platforms I need to attend to, so I'll be busy with that for awhile.
Take it easy, folks. Catch up with you mid-Lent.
Sunday, January 28, 2024
The Lord Weighs the Heart
In the aftermath of Fiducia supplicans, I think one of the greatest tragedies we are witnessing is the obfuscation of the way grace draws us despite our weaknesses. There are two aspects to this obfuscation, the first relating to our real capacity to obstruct grace, the second relating to the ability of grace to reach us despite our sins. We will consider each in turn.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
A Segregated Church
Last month on the Unam Sanctam Catholicam website, I published a lengthy article chronicling the segregation of the Catholic schools and parishes in the Archdiocese of New Orleans following the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore (1884), which called for separate black facilities as a means of more effectively ministering to the needs of black Catholics. It is quite an illuminating article for those interested in American Catholic history and how the hierarchy navigated the "color line" that was so prevalent in late 19th century America.