Tradition and traditionalism
Is traditionalism “dead ashes”? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
What is freedom?
Freedom is another word for — what? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
Recollections of 9/11
I watched the Towers burn on 9/11 from where I lived, three miles away. At Chronicles Magazine I comment on how it seemed and how it seems.
Tradition, the Church, and the World
I remember 9/11 at Catholic World Report.
The Church in the new America
What should Catholics do in the new woke and globalized America? I discuss at Catholic World Report.
Trads and normies
I deliver a lecture on how Catholic traditionalists look to non-traditionalists at the Roman Forum 2021 conference.
Pope Francis and faith in historical evolution
How Catholic is Francis in his view of how the world works and how Hegelian or Marxist? I puzzle over his views at Catholic World Report.
The pluribus and the unum
I puzzle over the One and the Many in government, at Catholic World Report.
What to do? Views from the past
In the late ’40s the Church was facing the same basic situation she is now. I compare some reactions then and now at Catholic World Report.
Left, Right, and Church teaching: seasonal reflections on politics
Why do religious and political positions align so closely? Some reflections at Catholic World Report.