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Death of the Son, Episode IX Dinner with a Murderer [ Episode One ;  Episode Two ;  Episode Three ;  Episode Four ;  Episode Five ;  Episode...

  The Council of Nicaea: A Historical Explainer This year is, among other things, the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Ecumenica...

Future Heresies: A Thought Experiment The following post will most likely interest very few people; but, well, it interests me.  I have spen...

Death of the Son, Episode Seven: Apollon's Tale [ Episode One ;  Episode Two ;  Episode Three ;  Episode Four ;  Episode Five ; Episode ...

 [ These are three prayers of my own composition that I pray daily. Perhaps others might find them helpful as well.]  Prayer For Divine Corr...

Testament of Belief [ I apologize for doing so little writing on here, as I have been both rather busy and also my creative energies have be...

Those readers of this blog who do not otherwise know me may be interested to learn that my first academic book, from Oxford University Press...

Today is the feast of a saint that is very near and dear to my heart, and to which I owe a lot personally: Pope Saint Martin I. While today ...

The Trouble with Catholic Journalism "Transparency" is the most important issue in the Catholic Church today. How do we know this?...

Death of the Son, Episode Five: Imperatrix, Dominus, Episcopus [ Episode One ;  Episode Two ;  Episode Three ; Episode Four ] When his visio...

Food, Conspiracy, and the Homo Imperialis: A Theoretical Look at the Political Crises of Modernity Over the last few months, years, and/or d...

Christmas and the Divine Creativity Cur Deus homo ?  "Why is God a man?" So asked St. Anselm of Canterbury, long ago; and so many ...

Pope Francis and the Third World War In the far-off year 2014, the sun shone, Barack Obama was President of the United States, The Hobbit: B...

Prudence, Wisdom, and the Contemporary Crisis in Catholic Ethics I am going to attempt what I fully understand is both a very difficult and ...

Blood  The leaves on the trees are wet with blood From the heart of the dying sun. *********************************************************...

Who Jesus is to Me “He said to them: 'But you, who do you say that I am?'” The Father said: tell others tell the flock who Jesus is ...

Homo Vanus Patiens   On the Interpretation of Seven American Nights and A Modest Primer on How to Read Gene Wolfe The passing of Gene Wolfe...

Death of the Son, Episode Four: At the Court of the King   [ Episode One ;  Episode Two ;  Episode Three ] Day had dawned before he was even...

Twin Peaks is America and David Lynch Needs Religion [Warning: the following contains spoilers for the shows and movie Twin Peaks. I would h...

Death of the Son, Episode Three: The Haunted Palace [ A continuation of my pulpish historical-fiction story on the deaths of Constantine...