Tracing the Jesuits’ Decline
Shortly after publishing an essay lamenting the Jesuits' Magazine America's embrace of Wokeism, I read a prominent Jesuit's article lamenting [...]
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08, 2024
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12, 2023
Can the Church Help Restore America’s Values?
In a recent essay I explained that America's intellectual and moral decline can be reversed by restoring the ideas and [...]
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08, 2022
The Inflation of Infallibility
-----------Carl Rogers---------- My recent essay on the doctrine of Papal Infallibility showed that many popes were mistaken about [...]
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11, 2019
The Cost of Denying Conscience
For millennia the concept of conscience was prominent in virtually every religious and secular ethical system, though interpretations of its [...]
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10, 2017
The Challenge of Being a Priest
Being a priest bestows the incomparable honor of changing bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, as [...]
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05, 2017
The Lost Art of Paying Attention
A month before the 2016 election, I wrote an essay called “My Political Disgust," in which I criticized most politicians [...]
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10, 2016
Theology Confounded
A friend recently recommended a slender spiritual book, Poverty of Spirit. Written by Johannes Baptist Metz, a German Catholic theologian, [...]
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09, 2016
The Faith vs Works Controversy
St. Paul claimed that we are saved by faith alone (Romans, 4:2,3,13); St. James claimed that faith must be joined by good [...]
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01, 2016
Obama’s Self-Deception
Since he first assumed office, President Obama has steadfastly refused to acknowledge Islamic terrorism, even when the perpetrators admit to [...]
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06, 2015
Revisiting Truth and Reality
I can somewhat identify with Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane NCAA director who was forced to resign when her claim to [...]