With politics the only show in town, does unplugging feel stranger than ever? Instead of watching the presidential debate last night, I flew to Colorado for a friend’s wedding. I wrote this from approximately the distance above Earth that I…
In courting Catholic voters, Joe Biden never fails to mention his friendliness with Pope Francis. He boasts that he knows him “as well as anybody” and that they share the same spin on “social justice.” “We need to create a…
We may never know why Pope Francis chose to channel Robespierre and the slogan of the French Revolution, Liberté, égalité, fraternité, in his new encyclical Fratelli Tutti, but there is no denying that the chilling motto headlines section 103 of…
A year spinning vinyl records when I was a disc jockey in college won’t let me take Pope Francis seriously, because Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, and Jackson Browne were more coherent in two songs than the new papal encyclical letter…
“For things will never be perfect, until human beings are perfect — which I don’t expect them to be for quite a number of years!” – Thomas More, Utopia To what shall I liken reading one of Pope Francis’s encyclicals?…