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Articles by David G. Bonagura, Jr.

About David G. Bonagura, Jr.
David G. Bonagura, Jr. is the author, most recently, of 100 Tough Questions for Catholics: Common Obstacles to Faith Today, and the translator of and the translator of Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Friends in Mourning. An adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s Seminary and Catholic International University, he serves as the religion editor of The University Bookman, a review of books founded in 1960 by Russell Kirk. Visit him online at his personal website.
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Overcoming the secular malaise that distorts our supernatural vision

July 26, 2021 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 8

“The sky did not fall when we didn’t attend weekly Mass,” commented someone to me about the suspension of the sacraments in the spring of 2020. We could still pray, follow the commandments, and love […]

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St. Thomas More and the tribulations of our time

June 21, 2021 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 11

State-imposed lockdowns, suspended sacraments, locked churches, city riots, vandalized statues, “cancelling,” educational upheavals—these tribulations rippling from COVID-19 have rocked Catholics and the practice of our faith. As the pandemic gripped the country and the months […]

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Can we love the Church?

June 3, 2021 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 6

Love is an act of the will, a decision that we make to give our best to another. Love is often associated with romance and sweeping emotions, but it need not be. When we take […]

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Six reasons for Catholics to read Virgil’s Aeneid

March 2, 2021 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 6

Virgil, one of the greatest poets the world has known, was cancelled out of universities decades ago. Unredeemable for the sins of imperialism and patriarchy, and possessing the wrong identity of white, European, and male, […]

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The implicit faith of “Follow the science”

January 4, 2021 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 14

“Follow the science” ranks high on 2020’s long list of patronizing phrases. If we yield obsequiously to scientific data, we are told, coronavirus, climate change, and all our other problems will be solved. “Science will […]

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A Jesus who looks like each of us

July 13, 2020 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 7

“Tear them down.” So ranted a liberal activist recently about “the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus.” Depicting Jesus in this way, he continued, is “a form of white supremacy.” The Archbishop […]

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Will Covid-19 bury Catholic funerals?

April 24, 2020 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 15

Among the less noted tragedies of the coronavirus pandemic is the continued suspension of Catholic funerals. The deceased are deprived of the holy sacrifice of the Mass offered for their souls’ repose, and family members […]

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