Josephology meets Peterology
This was really fun. Saturday night, I joined my friend (and possibly distant cousin) John D. Lewis for a “Cuppa Joe” on his St. Joseph-themed podcast. Our heads are a bit small at the bottom but that’s part of the...
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Interview with Cardinal Mario Grech on the Synod
The Church’s Radical Reform · Episode 5: Calm Amidst the Storms Listen on: Apple | SoundCloud Following up on yesterday’s Field Hospital podcast episode, where Jeannie Gaffigan and I talked to Kim Daniels about the global synodal process (also known...
What the heck is a synod? Let’s ask Kim Daniels!
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify In today’s episode of Field Hospital, Jeannie Gaffigan and I talk to Kim Daniels, the codirector of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University and a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication. We...
What do we love more: our instruments of death or our future?
In the wake of the horrible massacre of innocent schoolchildren and their teachers today in Uvalde, Texas, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich released a statement on Twitter in response to this unconscionable act of evil, only 10 days after another mass...
Author who called pope “heretic” to speak at DC parish
This evening, May 23, 2022, at 7 pm, Holy Comforter-Saint Cyprian Catholic Church, a predominantly Black parish in Southeast Washington, DC, will be hosting a talk by controversial traditionalist speaker Peter Kwasniewski on “Understanding Organic Development in the Catholic Liturgy:...
Chinese Catholicism: Dialogue, Resistance, and Cardinal Zen
On Wednesday, May 11, the former Bishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen, was arrested along with several other activists on charges related to their involvement with a now-inactive charity, the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which was founded to help...
Discussing Race and Racism in a Catholic Context
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify In today’s episode of Field Hospital, Jeannie Gaffigan and I talk to our old friend Sam Rocha, a professor at the University of British Columbia, about issues of race and racism in the Church and our society. I’m...
A Catholic media tragedy
Yesterday brought devastating news for the Church and Catholic journalism, when Catholic News Service (CNS) announced that they will be shutting down their Washington, DC and New York bureaus at the end of the year, and that all of its...
A wounded healer speaks about the sexual abuse crisis
Editors’ note: This episode speaks on sexual abuse, trauma, and healing, and contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. In this new episode of Field Hospital, Jeannie Gaffigan and I had the privilege of speaking to Mark Joseph...
When Catholics resist both faith and science
After completing my freshman year of college, my friend Chuck, a physics major, helped me get a summer job at the Center for Superconductivity Research. I wasn’t studying physics or a related field at the time—I hadn’t yet chosen a...
Blood and water: A sign of the total gift of Christ
Greetings from Florence, Italy, where my family is spending the Triduum following a visit to Rome. As I mentioned before, the highlight of the trip was my family meeting Pope Francis following his General Audience on Wednesday, April 6. We...
Lewis Family Adventures in Rome!
I don’t have very much time to write, but as you may know my family and I have been abroad for the last couple of weeks and are currently in the Eternal City. The highlight of the trip thus far...
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