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Mary: Assumed into Christ's Ascension
August 22, 2023
Mary and Our Experience of the Cross
April 7, 2023
Immaculate Conception:
Saved by Grace
December 8, 2022
Is the Brown Scapular "Biblical"?
November 15, 2022
Marriage as an Analogy for Marian Consecration
October 18, 2022
James, Paul, and Justification at the Council of Trent
August 8, 2022
Reading the Church Fathers: An Interview with James Papandrea
June 23, 2022
Parents, Are You Intentionally Raising Saints?
May 27, 2021
The Wisdom of St. James and the New Testament Canon
March 22, 2021
What Can St. James Teach Us About Redemptive Suffering?
February 26, 2021
The End: Be Sober,
Be Hopeful
January 22, 2021
Metaphysi-WHAT, Now?
Wrapping My Head Around Thomistic Metaphysics
February 4, 2021
Pentecost Sunday: The Birth of the Universal Church
May 29, 2020
Jesus & The Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Oct. 29, 2019
Why Do We Call God "Father"?
June 13, 2019
Why I Am "No" on the Rapture, But "Yes" on Mary's Assumption
Sept. 28, 2017
Book Review:
Dr. Carrie Gress's
"The Marian Option"
May 30, 2017
"How Are We Saved?" A Catholic's Scriptural Response
April 25, 2016
The Perspicuity of Scripture - And is It
Even Scriptural?
Jan. 26, 2016
God's Gag Reflex
(Papal Infallibility)
Sept. 7, 2015
Jesus, the Great
"Amen"?
June 15, 2015
On the Wrong Side of History
Nov 9, 2014
The Ascension, Jesus's
Priesthood, and the
Mass
May 14, 2015
Daily Consecration - Christ's and Ours
June 5, 2014
Our Prayer:
God's Love for God
May 19, 2014
If Jesus Prayed Judaism's Eighteen Benedictions,
Why Don't We?
May 6, 2014
The Sacred Heart: Source of Our Prayer
April 30, 2014
The Meal at Emmaus - Jesus's
Todah
April 21, 2014
H
ow to Pray When the
Words Won't Come
April 9, 2014
The Transfiguration: 4 Steps
to Hearing God's Voice
April 3, 2014
Jesus in the Old Testament,
from A to Z
Sept. 24, 2013
The Assumption: Our Quintessential Catholic Feast
Aug. 15, 2012
Am I Not Here, Who is Your Mother?
Dec.17, 2009
The Eucharist, Mary, and Redemptive Suffering
Jan.2, 2010
Lent - Sharing in the Obedience of Jesus
March 9, 2010
Did the Apostles Pray the Rosary?
May 10, 2010
-reprinted in the Diocese of Charlotte (NC)'s newspaper,
The Catholic
News & Herald
May 14, p.15
Book Review: Kari Burke' s
The Life
I Dreamed
July 9, 2012
Book Review:
Kevin Lowry's
Faith At Work
Jan.17, 2012
Seeing Ourselves in Simon of Cyrene
July 26, 2010
Aquinas' Conquest:
An Interview with
Kevin Vost
April 15, 2010
Bert Ghezzi's "Adventures in Daily Prayer" - Review and Interview
November 3, 2010
Truth - It Is What It Is
April 5, 2010
Mystery, Meditation, Media: An Interview with Matt Swaim
March 20, 2010
Book Review:
The Eucharist and the Rosary
April 20, 2010
Why Call It Eucharist (Thanksgiving)?
Feb.19, 2010
Hard to Imagine the Afterlife?
Jan.20, 2010
Courting Like a Saint
July 6, 2023
The Apostolic Origin of Marian Consecration
May 5, 2023
Saint Joseph: First to Be Consecrated to Jesus Through Mary
March 20, 2023
Benedict XVI on the Historicity of the Magi and Star
January 8, 2023
Why are Saturdays Devoted to the
Blessed Mother?
November 30, 2022
Marian Consecration:
It's All About Jesus
October 17, 2022
Writing as an Analogy for Salvation
October 13, 2022
God's Timing:
The Story of a Book
August 5, 2022
Why Men Should Consecrate Themselves to St. Joseph
July 22, 2021
Tradition: Source of the Written Gospels
April 15, 2021
A Reminder:
We
Must
Change
March 8, 2021
Redemptive Suffering in the Early Church
March 4, 2021
St. Paul in the Garden of Gethsemane
March 1, 2021
The Glory of the Resurrection Was Already Present at the Visitation
October 14, 2020
Why the World Needs Fulton Sheen: An Interview with
Dr. Peter Howard
Feb. 5, 2020
Spiritual Warfare in the
City of Angels
Sept. 4, 2019
"Exposing the Anti-Mary:
An Interview with Carrie Gress
March 18, 2019
"Marrying" the Rosary to the Divine Mercy Chaplet
Sept. 12, 2017
The Eucharist: Sacrifice
of Praise
March 23, 2016
"Why Are You Afraid?" Addressing Our Fear of Persecution
March 21, 2016
Why EVERY Christian Believes
in Purgatory
Nov. 2, 2015
Interspersing the
Rosary with the
Chaplet of Divine Mercy
August 11, 2015
January 26, 2015
Worship an Idol Much?
Feb. 23, 2015
The Rosary & Mary's Jewish Prayer Life
May 14, 2014
Jesus' Prayer in the Womb of Mary
Dec 29, 2014
We Still Find Him in
the Temple
May 28, 2014
The Catholic Book Blogger's
Interview with
Shane
Kapler
May 18, 2014
If You Can't Make Daily Mass,
Pray Like JMJ
May 7, 2014
"Hot N Cold" - What Katy Perry Can Teach Us About Living the Faith
June 15, 2013
Shepherd in the Rearview Mirror
Aug. 27, 2013
Every Christian Has a Pope (It's Just a
Question
of "Who?")
Aug. 20, 2013
What's Next
for
Christopher West?
Nov.13, 2012
Culture War & The Armor of God
July 31, 2012
Feast of the Immaculate Conception
, an excerpt from
Tending The Temple
Dec.8, 2011
Special Education -
"Spirituality" in Our Public
Schools?
Jan.11, 2012
Book Review: Where Do Priests Come From?
Aug. 31, 2010
A Tri-Lingual Catholic Blitz:
An Interview with Carlos
Caso-Rosend
i June 21, 2010
Transfiguration - Just a Stretch of the Legs
Feb.27, 2010
Who Does God Use?
Feb.1, 2010
-reprinted in
Parish World
, Feb.7, 2010