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Twenty-Third Sunday In Ordinary Time, September 6, 2026
Ezekiel is told that if he keeps quiet, the blood of the wicked man will be required at his hand. Six centuries…
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The Letter And The Spirit: Two Hundred Thousand Visas And A Right That Exists Only On Paper
Asylum is a claim about what will happen to you if you go home. That’s the whole of it. Which means the…
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You Cannot Inherit Holiness
There’s a real comfort in belonging to something holy, and both of today’s readings speak to that. Some of the Thessalonians had…
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Even If It Does Not Contradict Civil Law: What A Room Should Cost When The City Is Burning
Nevada’s attorney general spent part of Monday warning businesses about price gouging in Washoe County. Complaints had already come in about lodging,…
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Clean The Inside Of The Cup
Most of us can produce a ledger: an account of the things we have done. Mass on Sunday, the envelope in the…
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Share In Its Isolation: The Church On Making Bystanders Pick A Side
Scott Bessent published a list Sunday night, and the striking thing about this list is who is on it. Countries that buy…
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Nothing Good Comes From Nazareth
Today the Church keeps the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, and the Gospel hands us the least flattering line any apostle ever said.…
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No Investigation, No Expiration: What The Church Asks Of The Stronger Neighbor
At one minute past midnight on Saturday, a 50 percent tariff landed on Canadian hockey sticks, cement, liquor and tongue depressors. The…
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Who Holds The Keys
Every one of us answers the question Jesus asks today, whether we ever say it out loud or not. We answer it…
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Collapse This Regime: The One Purpose A Sanction Is Allowed To Have
At 12:01 on Friday morning, a document nobody outside the shipping and insurance business had ever heard of quietly stopped working. General…
