April 2026

Conversion therapy is psychologically unhealthy and spiritually hazardous. Catholic bishops and organizations must stop supporting it.

For Pope Leo to visit the United States under present circumstances would be far more scandalous than his simply staying away.

For Vatican theologians, the imagined obsolescence of humanity is not a historical prospect to be welcomed or feared, but an intellectual error to be avoided.

The farmworkers’ movement was never meant to be about one man, but the people. After the Cesar Chavez revelations, that must remain our ideal.

Community organizing is the Resurrection unfolding in the here and now.

I’ve recently been experimenting with the Catholic AI chatbot Truthly. The experience of interacting with it is not unlike talking to some priests.

Praying the Sorrowful Mysteries this Lent has meant letting Mary guide me to the gates of an ICE detention facility.

The Seven Last Words of Christ, spoken from the cross, put us in touch with the person of Jesus and call forth a personal response.