We Have a New Pope
Matthew Fox
May 9, 2025
Two days ago, Gianluigi invited me to return to write a DM when the white smoke rose from the Vatican, and the world had a
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Week of 4/21-25/2025: Two Announcements & the Power of the Empty Tomb
Matthew Fox
April 27, 2025
April 21, 2025: Two Announcements for DM ReadersMatthew informs us that he’s taking a month off to focus on completing a new book. It’s a
A Second Announcement & Earth Day, 2025
Matthew Fox
April 22, 2025
First, I want to acknowledge the loss of Pope Francis who died yesterday. He was a champion for the Earth: his first encyclical, Laudato Si, was dedicated to
Two Announcements for DM Readers
Matthew Fox
April 21, 2025
I have two announcements to share, one this Monday morning and one on Tuesday. The first is this. I am going to be taking about
Week of 4/14-19/2025: Empathy, Dark Nights, Holiness & Resurrection
Matthew Fox
April 20, 2025
April 14, 2025: Rabbi Heschel & Hildegard of Bingen on Dark Nights & HolinessReflecting on the dark night of the soul that our country and
Easter 2025: Resurrection of the Body, Body Politic, Mother Earth?
Matthew Fox
April 19, 2025
Easter is many things to many people. And to some people it is nothing or next to nothing. Let us meditate today on its potential to contribute
Good Friday, 2025
Matthew Fox
April 18, 2025
Today is Good Friday, a day to meditate on evil and sacrifice and the price good people pay for following their conscience and having one,
America Beware: Opus Dei Is Back in the News Again
Matthew Fox
April 17, 2025
In yesterday’s DM we considered the truly scary crackpot evangelical Christianity that is making headway in the Trumpian world: A so-called Christianity that is defining
The War Against Empathy (in the Names of Trump & Christ)
Matthew Fox
April 16, 2025
Yesterday we meditated on the essential lesson of Passover: that of empathy. Empathy is the “central message” of the 8-day season of Passover, said Rabbi Jonathan
Two Brilliant Pieces on Passover & Palm Sunday in the “Secular” Press
Matthew Fox
April 15, 2025
I was thrilled to read two substantive articles on this week’s Passover and Palm Sunday/Holy Week celebrations this morning. Finding one in The New York Times and another
