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The Sycamore Fig Tree

Wild yet humble, the sycomore fig is a remarkable symbol of the Christian life, beautiful in its simplicity.

Reading Catholic Social Teaching in Newark, New Jersey

Papal warnings about over-centralization shed light on the trajectory of the politics of Newark, New Jersey.

No Screens at Church

If you plop a screen in front of a child, it requires nothing of you other than handing over the device.

Like Grass

After the cold and dark of a long Russian winter, spring had arrived.

On the Occasion of My Dog’s Death

Not only has Magnolia crossed over. She’s managed to go bounding straight into the troubling territory of heaven.

Four Score and Seven Years: On the discovery of time

In the spring, I was jolted into change. Because that was when I embarked upon the discovery of time.

Seeing Slant in the Company of Others

The poet, the teacher, and the student together form a chain of transmission in which what is handed down is a way of being in the world.

Humanitas: Mundane, Magnificent, and Wanting More

Leo calls us to find meaning in the mundane aspects of human life and care. In doing so, he articulates the centrality of limits in the human experience.

Building Bulwarks against Dehumanization

It may be time for willing churches to begin devoting more resources to the active pursuit of remaining human.

The Humane Localism of Pope Leo XIV

Both global solidarity and local subsidiarity are needed if we are to address the emerging technology of so-called AI in sane and humane ways.

A Much-Needed Reaction to The Dark Enlightenment

This desire to reduce liberalism to economic liberalism is taken to its extreme in the dark enlightenment.

Subsidiarity: A New Intellectual Virtue?

Responsibilities—actions, decisions, discussions—should be exercised at the level closest to the individual and only move “upward” if necessary.
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