In honor of the beginning of Holy Week for Christians -

“And the life of every believer will be marked by a certain void. We are incomplete, like someone waiting for the one who they love to come home, their ears straining for the sound of steps on the gravel, of the key turning in the lock.

This void may take the form of a lack of ambit…

Decided to take Holy Week off from most serious writing. I'll scribble notes in my journal, but most of the time I'm going to read good books and think and pray and ask for God's guidance.

They knew that Rumeysa Ozturk had done nothing wrong. They sent masked men to grab and detain her anyway.

They knew Abrego Garcia had a protection order from deportation. They sent him to a foreign jail anyway.

They know the Supreme Court has told them that Abrego Garcia must be returned. They don’t care.

There is no debate any more. This president is a direct threat to the Constitution of the United States.

This is insightful. As a Catholic — a cradle Catholic, but an intellectual one — I spent a long time jumping, like Qoheleth, from one pursuit to another in order to find meaning, to “prove” myself, as it were. That included a lot of intellectual pursuits and attempts to master Catholic theology.

Like many who attended Steubenville — defi…

Republican senator Dave McCormick condemns the arson against Governor Shapiro’s home: “We must call out the radical rhetoric and political violence that we have all witnessed over the course of this decade.”