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Papabile Profile

Here’s my profile of Cardinal Schonborn.

My Latest Papabile Profile

Get to know your Cardinals! Here is my latest Papabile Profile for Aleteia on Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi.

Celibacy Lust and Love

I can speak from experience. I was a celibate Anglican priest for seven years. Then I got married. I was a married Anglican priest for three years. Then we joined the Catholic church. I was in the married state as a layman for ten years. Now I am a married Catholic priest and have been [...]

Papabile Profile

Here is my latest papabile profile for Aleteia…

Reality and Religion

I’m in Atlanta conducing a parish mission this week, so blogging may be sparse. However, here is an article just published on Intercollegiate Review on the religious education of teenagers and college students. There are three ways to respond to religious instruction: polite conformity, rebellion or intelligent inquiry. Jump over there and read it as [...]

Is the Catholic Church Leaderless?

It is understandable that mainstream media folks don’t quite “get it” when it comes to the papal resignation. You can’t expect them to be experts at everything, but it does annoy when they don’t bother to consult people who are experts. One headline reads, “Catholic Church Leaderless”. Yes, in a way, but it the papacy is [...]

Apologetics Camp

Jennifer Fulwiler has a great interview with Patrick Madrid about the teen apologetics camp in North Carolina run by Envoy Institute Check it out here.

Why Pope Benedict Mattered to Me

In all the drama of today’s farewell to Pope Benedict XVI, and amidst all the high level comment, intellectual analysis and historical accounting of his legacy, here are the very personal reasons why Benedict mattered to me. 1. He granted the dispensation from the vow of celibacy that opened the door for my ordination as [...]

Articles for Aleteia

Here is my latest papabile profile–on Cardinal Angelo Scola. Also, here is an article on Rage-–Pretty scary. By the way, Aleteia is a new, trending website giving a Catholic perspective on news and current events. Check it out and bookmark it!

When a Little is a Lot

Go here for my latest article for Aleteia–Aleteia is a new website dedicated to Catholic thought and current events. My piece features the British economist and Catholic convert E.F.Schumacher–who was much influenced by Catholic social teaching and the Distributism of Chesterton, Belloc and others. I also recommend that you bookmark Aleteia. They’ve got some great [...]