Anatomy of a Pastoral Letter
On May 1, 2021 San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone issued a pastoral letter on Catholic teaching concerning abortion. Soon afterward, [...]
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05, 2021
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05, 2021
A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma
The title is borrowed from Winston Churchill. Though he coined the phrase in reference to another matter, it describes perfectly [...]
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05, 2021
The Catholic Hierarchy’s Role in the Border Crisis
I recently wrote, “The mistakes in immigration policy made in Europe over the past half-century are deeply chiseled in history [...]
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04, 2021
The Grave Danger of Good Intentions
You may be wondering, “How can good intentions be dangerous? After all, good is the very opposite of evil, and goodness [...]
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04, 2021
President Biden’s Foolish Refusal to Learn
If we learn from our experience, we are considered intelligent. If we learn from our experience and other people’s as well, [...]
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04, 2021
Reaffirming the Story of Salvation
The Nicene Creed summarizes Catholic teaching about Jesus in these words: “We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only [...]
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03, 2021
A Valuable Insight on Immigration
Sometimes insights come in unexpected ways and from unlikely sources. One such insight recently came from Nayib Bukele, President of [...]
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03, 2021
Goodbye Logic, R.I.P.
Logic may be defined as a system of thinking that produces reasonable decisions and judgments about problems and issues large [...]
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03, 2021
A Perfect Theological Storm
A Perfect Storm is defined as “a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of [movements].” A Perfect [...]
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03, 2021
The Burden of Ideas
It is fashionable to believe that ideas are quiet, ethereal things that can do no harm. “What others think won’t [...]