If I had a penny for the number of anon accounts that find their way into my mentions, I would be a billionaire. On Catholic Twitter alone, there is a trend of anon accounts that display some holy image as the profile photo (e.g. saint image, the Sacred Heart, etc.)…

On June 29, 2022, a very online priest named Fr. Casey of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM) attempted to utilize a TikTok trend to, in his view, evangelize. Instead, Fr. Casey perpetuated the undignified practice of assigning numbers to persons based on looks (via a tweet he later deleted)…

I received a number of comments following my publication of “Barron’s Bodybuilders.” Some comments reveal an uncritical following of the auxiliary bishop of the Santa Barbara region. …

On May 11, 2022, I wrote in Crisis Magazine about the controversies at Word on Fire, the Catholic media ministry founded by Bishop Robert Barron. …

In the ancient Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the following famous aphorism “Know Thyself” (γνῶθι σεαυτόν) was inscribed. Socrates reiterated this aphorism as “To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.” Included in self-knowledge is the important skill of becoming aware of our own weaknesses. Don’t we hate that interview…

Recently, I began to declare out loud what had been burgeoning within me for most of my adult life: I am a political “none.” Politics never piqued my interest. Perhaps this is due to having two immigrant parents who did not become naturalized citizens until I was an adult. …

November 6, 2021 His Excellency Archbishop José Gomez Archdiocese of Los Angeles cc: [REDACTED] Dear Archbishop Gomez: As the celebrant prays in the Syro-Malabar Qurbana, the liturgy of my heritage, may the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the Fellowship of the Holy…

I recently participated in an interview for a Catholic publication on the level of diversity in American Catholic media. In my comments, I praised right-of-center publications such as Crisis and Ignatius Press’ Homiletic & Pastoral Review for being gracious and receptive towards my article submissions. In conjunction, I bemoaned certain…

I recently shared in Crisis my experience of sexual harassment and misconduct by a Jesuit priest during one of my application interviews to the Society of Jesus. What surprised me was how there is not a clear-cut path to reporting a harassing and abusive priest. After several Google searches and…