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On my sabbatical in 2018, I put the finishing touches to my newest book, Married Priests in the Catholic Church .  But before doing that, I ...

I've started working on a long essay on what we still have not learned from Erich Fromm, the 40th anniversary of whose death we will sho...

If you are wondering what to get all the Catholic bishops  and clergy in your life as Christmas bears down on us in exactly one month, why n...

The last, and arguably most "radical" chapter in my Everything Hidden Shall be Revealed: Ridding the Church of Abuses of Sex and P...

Over at The Catholic Thing I make my debut in its pages arguing in response to recent writings of Massimo Faggioli and Robert Barron about ...

With the news that arguably the most abused diocese in the country is set to receive a new bishop, herewith some desiderata for the new bish...

Catholic apologists make much hay insisting that faith is not magic, and is compatible with reason. Catholics frequently talk about their ow...

Perhaps some day the concept of "lay involvement" in ecclesial governance will not be treated as though it were a rare strand of p...

I was at the twenty-third Orientale Lumen conference in Washington this past week. Capably organized as ever by the indefatigable and ever-g...

Elsewhere you can read my thoughts on the new set of canonical norms recently proffered by the bishop of Rome as some kind of system to hel...

Given their role in the on-going sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, I rather expect that most bishops, if they still perform a nightly...

I thought I'd wait until the immediate rush of commentary on Ratzinger's latest letter had passed in order to see how those comments...

It was really in the summer of 2001, which I spent teaching in Ukraine, that I realized, I suppose, the theme of all my subsequent academic ...

In the newly released Christus Vivit   I spy at least two places where the message overlaps with my new book Everything Hidden Shall Be Reve...

I was gratified to read this week of a French priest flatly insisting that people stop calling him 'father.' That accords with what...