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Pope Leo’s motto, “In Illo uno unum” (In the One, one) is taken from Augustine’s Expositions on the Psalms. And in the passage, we find the idea framed in the classic both/and of the one and the many—and with Christ at the center holding the two poles together in union.

This is the Way.

Pope Leo's cameo in the next Terrence Malick film:

Friends, Catholicism should be unnerving, countercultural, and mysterious.

War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures. May diplomacy silence the weapons!

The creature is a perpetual question addressed to God....He is the answer to the question which I am. —Hans Urs von Balthasar, "Prayer"

The Christian cannot slip out of the tension between heaven and earth. —Hans Urs von Balthasar, "Prayer"

To remain humanist today, one has to become religious again. —René Girard

Man is made up of soul and body: and assuredly, whom God frees, He frees the whole man. —Augustine, “On Continence”

What if, rather than placating or ignoring or wishing away the progressive push, the Church simply began to resist it like never before? catholicworldreport.com/2025/06/30/cat…

The fallout of the sexual revolution is a moral crisis—in fact, the great moral crisis of our time—and the great moral opportunity. My latest for Catholic World Report: catholicworldreport.com/2025/06/30/cat…

Today is the feast of St. Junipero Serra. Takes me back when Bishop Barron organized a coalition to stand athwart an attempt to vandalize the Saint’s statue at Santa Inez Mission. The effort failed. The mob dispersed. The statue remained.

Since becoming pope, Leo XIV, the "Son of Saint Augustine," has quoted the Doctor of Grace—by my count, and appropriately enough—no less than 33 times. That's an average of about once every 1.5 days.

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Thank you Peggy Haslar for this thoughtful review of my book!

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“Weary of left/right, science/religion, ascetic/epicurean, faith/reason, either/or binaries?” “The Way of Heaven and Earth” by Matthew Becklo “reveals the road to recovery,” writes Catholic counselor Peggy Haslar: on.wof.org/4eBnkPz

Why, writes Matthew Becklo, when so much of the world has embraced the revolution—when it would be so easy to leave or ignore the Church—do progressives desperately try to change the Church, to make it into something it’s not, and never can be? catholicworldreport.com/2025/07/07/on-…

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