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The Mary Pages took 1st place in biography at the Association of Catholic Publishers awards. I’m very glad about this. It’s a risky book in terms of genre, and major kudos to Matthew Becklo and Word on Fire for having the vision to publish it. It’s my hymn to Mary.

70,000 people filled St. Peter's Square for the closing Mass of the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly this morning. In his homily, Pope Leo XIV reflected on the example of holy families and stressed that the family is where faith is handed on from

Here's a new interview on poetry and reality. youtu.be/1V1w6_tbkvs?fe…

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My poem for today: the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. (The first line is the most real-sounding angel quote of them all.)

Part of growing in wisdom is gaining the sight to see ways you’ve been blind to your own tendencies and moral failings. It doesn’t matter how much wisdom you dole out about the human condition or what you see in others if you are unable to truly know yourself, warts and all.

Pope Leo XIV calls on the faithful – clergy and laity – to be “fishers of families” by promoting an encounter with God. vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…

Impossible to overstate how completely digital coding fits within a traditional understanding of sorcery; the ceremonial laying of arcane language over reality in order to reshape its order. Even requires constant “agreements” to work, as “will” is the operative property!

I’ve seen multiple tweets about widespread isolation and the loneliness epidemic..and then this. I hope the Holy Father gives good example and teaching on what good community and good friendship can look like today

In the age of AI, skills are cheap. Formation is everything. The colleges that survive won’t be the ones chasing tech trends— They’ll be the ones forming souls. Classical education isn’t a throwback. It’s the future.

It was hard taking toddlers out to eat with no screens, but now they eat and talk with us for hours at nice restaurants. It was hard taking toddlers on long-drives without screens, but now they’ve been across the country and back (60 hours)—reading, talking, imagining whole

“But I am, as I say, an amateur. And if that means that I have neglected parts of my large field, devoting myself mainly to those things that I personally like, it does also mean that I have tried to awake liking, to communicate delight in those things that I find enjoyable.” -

I wrote about Moby-Dick, the Book of Job, A Grief Observed, the sinking of the White Ship in 1120, The Man Who Was Thursday and the mystery of suffering. This is one of my favorite pieces I've written. (link below)

I’m honored to have a poem featured in this special issue of Christianity & Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press), on “Christianity and Contemporary Poetry.” Here with Dana Gioia, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Scott Cairns, Malcolm Guite, Shane McCrae, Jane Zwart, and so many others.

All the Dominican Friars friars have gathered together at Pontifical Faculty at Dominican House of Studies, The Catholic University of America, and National Shrine for a few days to reconnect and deepen our fraternity. Tonight was the first evening with solemn vespers.

This podcast with Faith Moore on the importance of myths & fairy-tales was one of the most pleasurable conversations I've had in a while, and I listed about a dozen collections you could read during the summer.

"While firm numbers are hard to come by, Namugongo's celebration of the Feast of the Uganda Martyrs on June 3 is almost certainly among the largest annual religious gatherings in the world. Attendance estimates range from 500,000 to the low millions. The feast is a national

A nice new review of my little book of T.S. Eliot. theinterim.com/reviews/t-s-el…

People think I'm kidding when I say there is a fascist agenda behind the promotion of AI. These devices are designed to kill literacy. We grew up in one of those rare periods of history where most people could read, and those who can read are harder to control.

My Penelope-inspired-poem is up over at New Verse Review, along with many other great poems from my classmates in the University of St. Thomas MFA program! A fabulous issue thanks to the hard work of Steven Knepper, Daniel Cooper, and Mary Grace Mangano!