Jordan Daniel Wood is the first guest we’ve had on a second time…and we will have him on for a third! I had a whole list of things that I wanted to talk with him about the first time we interviewed him, but after more than an hour discussing St. Maximus the Confessor...
A reflection on the readings for the Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy), April 16, 2023. This homily was originally posted on Ite Missa Est, April 23, 2017. There are three million fewer people calling themselves Catholic today than in 2007. As a result, the share of the U.S. population that...
To pursue a spiritual life, you have to fight. It takes strength and courage, for it is not a simple confrontation but a continuous battle with the Prince of Darkness (…) In Christian life there are three enemies: the demon, the world and the flesh. It’s about the everyday struggle with greed, lust,...
For The Pope: Answers, the much-talked-about documentary now streaming on Hulu, Pope Francis sat down with a group of young people of different faiths– some Catholic, some Christian, some atheists or agnostics, some ex-Catholics– to answer their questions on the Church and life. What was remarkable about this gathering was that these young...
As we approach the celebration of the Second Sunday of Easter in the Catholic Church, our Orthodox Christian brothers and sisters will celebrate on April 16, 2023, their own Easter, called Pascha. The discrepancy in the dates for the celebration of this pivotal feast day has long been lamented by members of both...
Yesterday, the second episode of The Debrief debuted on YouTube and wherever you listen to podcasts (If you haven’t already subscribed, search for the “Where Peter Is” podcast). In this episode, as promised, Dominic and I discussed the latest developments with the German Church’s Synodal Way, the new Disney+/Hulu special featuring Pope...
“Christ is Risen; he truly is risen!” Pope Francis spoke these words to an audience of over 100,000 in St. Peter’s Square on the morning of Easter Sunday, 2023, encouraging the faithful to believe in the message St. Mary Magdalene spoke to the Apostles on that first Easter Sunday: “I have seen the...
For nearly four years, ever since Pope Francis spoke about the possibility of a traditionalist schism in the Catholic Church in the US, the standard rebuttal by papal critics has been: “The real schism is in Germany.” This is a reference to Der Synodale Weg (the “Synodal Path” or “Synodal Way” in English)...
Whew! Chocolate egg foils may still litter the kitchen, but the children survived the long Holy Week church services (maybe even got their feet washed?) and Lent is behind us for another year. It may unfortunately be unrealistic to think that we Catholics, especially Catholic parents, have any energy to dive into the...
Dominic and I had a conversation a couple of weeks ago about living out the evangelical counsels (poverty, chastity, and obedience) in marriage that unexpectedly blew up on Catholic Twitter…and not in a good way, haha. There were many folks who were upset by the idea that Pope Francis clarified and developed the...
Reflection on Pope Francis’s Easter Vigil homily.
Friends, I don’t know if you noticed, but we all walked into a bare Church. Silence greeted us. The altar is stripped of all its decorations. It is a skeletal altar that confronts us with the reality of death. God is dead, the altar announces, and we killed him. Nietzsche wasn’t wrong for...
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