A few days after Pope Francis died, I drove from Alabama to Wyoming. The ostensible reason for the journey was not to sit mobile shiva for the dead pontiff, but simply the delivery of my […]
In his most recent novel, Gates of Heaven (2025, Wiseblood Books), Glenn Arbery wraps up the complex, fraught, and evocative chronicle of friends, families, and foes working out their salvation in the contemporary American South and West. […]
A week ago today, I wasn’t even thinking about going to Rome. Yes, Pope Francis had died, and yes, a conclave was coming. But I had things to do, and I told myself, especially after […]
One more time, we are invited to think about “humility,” The question raised often during this most recent papacy has been: What does it mean to be “humble?” From the old Catholic Encyclopedia: The virtue of […]
Those interested in liturgical matters are sometimes accused of being inappropriately interested in externals when they should be out doing some works of mercy. Well, probably, since we all fall short on that score. (And […]
The young man in the seat next to me at the Angelika Film Center in New York City turned to his friend a few minutes before Wildcat began. “So, what’s this movie about?” he asked. […]
Editor’s note: This is the first of several CWR essays that will analyze various aspects of the just released document Dignitas Infinita. ———– I will leave it up to the actual philosophers and theologians to […]
This is a fairly niche subject, but my earlier post brought it to mind, so I think I’ll write about it. I also think it might shed some light on the never-ending Current Discussions in the […]
I recently went to Mass at a parish (not in Alabama) and had an experience that brought some of my usual areas of focus into…sharper focus. It was a large, growing, vibrant (as we say) […]
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