Table of Contents

 Ivyrosary from the beginning

 

2026 3 entries 

01 - 2026-02-16  faithfulness 

02 - 2026-01-20  disciplecy 

03 - 2018-01-18   respect 



2025 16 entries

01 - 2025-12-15  influence vs. power 

02 - 2025-11-27  counsellors and therapists are worth it 

03 - 2025-10-31  changing your mind 

04 - 2025-09-26   my reaction to Bishop Paprocki’s statement 

05 - 2025-09-10  the engineer and the prophet 

06 - 2025-09-01  facial recognition (poem) 

07 - 2025-08-15  STEM needs HALM 

08 - 2025-08-13  a Joe Messina poem from last April 

09 - 2025-06-09  showing up 

10 - 2025-05-19  life on Mars 

11 - 2025-04-23  Samaritan capitalists 

12 - 2025-03-31  ferris wheel (poem) 

13 - 2025-03-30  babel and the chainsaw 

14 - 2025-02-15  how to save theology 

15 - 2025-01-27  voiceless 

16 - 2025-01-05  stories about God 


2024  - 24 entries

01 - 2024-12-30  a shortage of sinners

02 - 2024-12-02  who are you talking to?

03 - 2024-11-22  the danger of thankfulness

04 - 2024-11-20  machines and games

05 - 2024-11-09  saintly institutions

06 - 2024-11-07  on abortion as an issue of natural law

07 - 2024-11-04  where to go in Ukraine

08 - 2024-07-27  seeds

09 - 224-06-27  hitch-hiking—sort of

10 - 2024-06-26  bigger than us [draft]

11 - 2024-05-16  that remarkable amendment

12 - 2024-04-30  what about truth?

13 - 2024-04-10  lattices

14 - 2024-03-24  Jesus talks with a capitalist

15 - 2024-03-21  the great commandment

16 - 2024-03-16  the sparrow

17 - 2024-03-12  work

18 - 2024-02-24  hubris in the democratic party

19 - 2024-02-21  a revised rosary

20 - 2024-02-19  how free am I?

21 - 2024-02-10  the tree of knowledge of good and evil

22 - 2024-02-10  “any support you might have had”

23 - 2024-02-10  when a pope apologizes

24 - 2024-02-10  a glossary for nonviolent prophets


2023  - 12 entries

02-06 the wrong turn

06-11 Mr. Trump and truth

08-10 probabilism and the transgender penitent

08-10 am I a fool?

09-17 enthusiasm

10-04 name change

11-01 what is God like?

11-04 what are we talking about?

12-21  a way forward


 

2022 (5)

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

02-22 our stories

05-17 lattices

07-03 abortion is tearing our country apart

10-23 pews

12-10 the hood

 




2021 (5)

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

01-11 a baptism homily

02-08 Abba father

02-19 what we need in order to do religion

04-07 certitude

08-18 thoughts on Afghanistan

 


2020 (9)

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

04-18 adversaries

05-18 everything is story

07-15 lukewarm atheists

08-15 learning

08-29 the good soldier

09-26 truth

10-19 mortification

10-25 a Christmas homily

12-07 psyche

 


2019 (13)

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

01-15 testifying

02-13 the future of religion

03-12 ivyrosary

04-16 prison bars

05-08 opioids and steroids

06-09 christianizing barbarians

08-05 a definition of love

08-13 forgiveness of sins

08-22 a herald-whig exchange

10-02 idols

10-17 Sunday, Week 4 …

12-16 mushrooms

12-31 transsubstantiation two

 

2018 (14)

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

01-08 what is beauty?

02-13 salvation

03-13 thomas Aquinas

03-21 devils

04-03 religion is fun

04-08 winning teams

07-30 second thoughts

08-11 the law isn’t saving us

09-15  herald-whig letter on jobs

09-24 governors

10-13 Herald-whig letter re EPA rule

11-16 a Franciscan approach to science

12-17 the existence of God

12-25 transsubstantiation


2017

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

01-08 on being 81 years old

01-17 how to structure the telling of our Christian story

03-08 on living with sinners

04-03 in praise of messiness

04-23 on the value of scripture

04-28 the benedict option

05-16 the original original sin

07-04 good liturgy

08-13 galileo’s troubles continue

10-24 foxholes

 


2016 (10)

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

02-15 a better philosophy

04-26 words

05-04 how to do religion

07-06 we swim in the waters of racism

07-31 bad news and good news

09-01 how to create a world conducive to “vocations”

09-12 on leisure

09-16 reflections on the Sacred Heart

11-09 the day after

11-19 john joe lakers on abortion (revised)

 

2015 (8)

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

03-19 a homily for the 4th Sunday of advent

05-03 religion as narcotic, religion as stimulant

05-21 who am I?

05-25 spiritual but not religious

10-04 guardian angels

10-26 “God”

11-09 cosmology

12-15 control

 


2014 (4)

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

03-05 a vision for a Franciscan university

05-08 credibility and incredibility

09-16 praying with the big bang

11-22 piggy-backing on God’s memory

 


  2013 (6)

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

01-06 catechism

04-02 gay marriage & the catholic moral tradition

05-01 surplus population

08-23 indirect charity

09-08 syria

10-10 natural law today

 


2012 (7)

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

09-06 soul-friendly capitalism

10-30 an unfinished universe

11-01 50th ordination anniversary celebration

11-05 reason

11-17 gay marriage

12-07 the priest shortage

12-16 a revised view of natural law

 

 

 2011 (14 posts)

[entries in the actual blog are arranged with the most recent ones first]

01. Psalms

02. Reflections on a meeting of priests

03. I am a racist

04. Why a friar writes a sociology textbook

05.  Burqahs and Birettas

06. The Fatal Wound in Natural Law

07. On Restraining Health Care Costs

08. Can Physical and Emotional Scars be Redeemed?

09. Bonhoeffer’s Problem

10. The Machine and the Game

11. The Marginal Sociologist

12. Whose wisdom, whose wealth, and whose might?

13. Sharing one's faith

14. Care of Souls 


 



 


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