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Finally. As planned the introduction and first chapters of my book, which is being published in a series of installments, has been...

I cannot reach my friends and family members who are trapped in a silo. I am lost to them. And in talking with them they refuse to...

To me this is an inane variety of Catholic piety. My God! Hundreds of thousands of human beings are dead, millions injured, and even more...

"It's just business."

𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩...

Just some thoughts on how our modern society falls so short in helping those who struggle with a wide-range of diseases that impact the...

So right off the bat, it is quite likely the people who really ought to read this article--just to hear me out and consider this...

I was eulogizing a former pope, Pope Benedict XVI a.k.a.a Joseph Ratzinger. And I was genuine in my expressions of grief, because while...

Our story begins in the 16th century, the year 1531, in what is now Mexico City. An indigenous man called Coatlaxopeuh, or his Spanish...

I ask this question as much of myself as of others: "Do religious people often draw the wrong lessons from tragedy?" Finding a plan or a...

Can Thanksgiving Day be rehabilitated? Can it be repurposed from its colonial roots? It is not a stretch to say that the propaganda that...

All Souls Day. All Hallows Eve. All Saints Day. It all bleeds together. When I was a priest. It seems ages ago. Just 6 months now. I...

Yeah. Sadly this is a thing. Conspiracy-theory believing Catholics is nothing new, of course. But in the era of MAGA, Q-Anon, and...

It’s difficult—and technically there’s no time to speak of. There are games. But all the games are defective in some way. For example,...

Gotta talk to you about unnamed male friends. It seems I got a lot of these guys on social media, and some I have known for a long time....

There are a couple of places I know of where the trees are always labeled. The Arnold Arboretum in Boston and Mount Auburn Cemetery on...

In the realm of Catholic spirituality, Pope Saint John XXIII was a game-changer. This "short-timer" pontiff managed to usher in an era...

One can have religion and little spirituality. A lot of religion, and a very shallow spirituality. One can master prayers, dogma, canon...

There is a well-written article in the latest issue of America magazine that touches upon an issue very relevant today, in the United...

Welcome. This post is a long time in the making. Many, many months back now, I did something that I had been doing for decades--often...