Paul Baumann

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  • Sep 16, 2025
    Contentedly chewing on my blueberry muffin the other morning, I bit down on something hard. It turned out to be a twenty-year-old gold crown that had come unglued from what was left...
  • Sep 1, 2025
    In Church Life Journal, Michael Rota and Stephen Bullivant have a useful analysis of why cradle Catholics continue to flee the Church in extraordinary numbers and what might...
  • Jul 30, 2025
    It is as clichéd as the swallows’ return to Capistrano, as predictable as another Donald Trump sex scandal, and as reliable as the turn of the seasons. Every few months...
  • Jul 16, 2025
    This year’s hundredth anniversary of the publication The Great Gatsby has generated an avalanche of praise for what many consider to be a singular American classic....
  • Feb 27, 2025
    Is the character and identity of the Catholic Church best described by juxtaposing “the people of God” to “a monarchical line of popes”? Were Pope John Paul...