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Ten Thousand Talents
Most of us can name, without pausing to think, the person who wronged us and roughly what it cost. We remember the…
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The Order Of The Rescue: Catholic Teaching And The Villages Colombia Could Not Reach
San José del Palmar sits in the Chocó, a green and mountainous department on Colombia’s Pacific side that most Colombians have never…
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Care Enough To Correct
In Ezekiel’s vision, God sends a man in linen through Jerusalem with a writing case, and the only people spared the sword…
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The Bill For Fifty Years: Catholic Teaching On Reparations, Blockades, And What Peace Actually Costs
Two governments spent Monday billing each other for their dead. Tehran says the Strait of Hormuz stays shut until Washington pays war…
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Twentieth Sunday In Ordinary Time, August 16, 2026
Ruins on the Phoenician coast of Lebanon at Byblos, north of Tyre and Sidon. This is the shoreline Jesus withdrew to in…
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Eat The Scroll Before You Speak
Ezekiel is handed a scroll covered front and back with lamentation and mourning and woe, and God tells him to eat it.…
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The Force Of Law, Or The Law Of Force: Catholic Teaching And Israel’s Rejection Of The Fifteen-Point Gaza Plan
Every peace that has ever held rested on something smaller than itself: a sentence somebody meant when he said it. On Sunday…
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These Are The Treasure Of The Church
“God loves a cheerful giver” is one of the most quoted lines Paul ever wrote, and one of the most domesticated. It…
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A Law With Names In It: The Church On The Rule Of Law And The New Attorney General
Most of us will never meet an attorney general. We meet the law instead, at a traffic stop, in a probate office,…
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Hear The Still Small Voice
Elijah has just won. Fire fell on Carmel, the 450 prophets of Baal are dead, the drought has broken, and the whole…
