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Let's approach our confusing world together at the meeting point of mimesis, theology, and politics with a "Grain of Wheat" to discover how charity is the purpose of everything and the key to understanding everything (John 12:24)
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The Decline Before the Decline... (opens the original)
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The Age of Excarnation (opens the original)
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Over the last year, I’ve been building an expanded data set off of the excellently detailed, but annoyingly short-term Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA)/Georgetown University data on Catholicism in the United States in an attempt to inject more factual analysis into the endless arguments about whether Vatican II caused, contributed to, or curbed the crisis of decline seen in the Catholic Church over the last sixty years.Because the CARA data only goes back to 1970, it shows ge
The Egregore Consuming Catholic Commentary: A Confession (opens the original)
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Though no one knows who he is, I’ve been deeply involved with the traditionalist Catholic commentator known as “Chris Jackson” for the last year and a half, over the course of most of my recent time writing on Catholic and cultural topics at Grain of Wheat and Catholic satire at Irkutsk Ice Truckers / The Daily Anathema. In fact, I’m, by some measure, which I don’t take as a point of pride, the reason Chris’s publication Hireath in Exile exists, as much as heR
Review: The 2026 Incola Conference (opens the original)
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The Weight of Liberty and St. Benedict’s School of the Heart (opens the original)
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