SPIRITED THINKING SINCE 1888
Ken Craycraft

Bob Dylan and (Im)mortality
May 20, 2022
Ken Craycraft contemplates getting older through the insightful lyrics of Bob Dylan
Policy and programs after Roe v. Wade
May 09, 2022
Ken Craycraft looks at how the Catholic Church can take advantage of a reversal of Roe v Wade to help women and families
Why “Common Good” is Elusive
April 25, 2022
Recently I was asked to give a lecture on the topic, “Freedom to Serve the Common Good: Faith in the Public Square and Public Office.” The best I could do was to explain why this is a difficult—if not impossible—task in the contemporary American political context. This is because the regnant definition of “freedom” precludes
Holy Week and the Politics of (Dis)ordered Love
April 08, 2022
Holy Week reminds us to order our lives toward God and away from ourselves.
Fifty years of The Godfather and the virtue of friendship
March 24, 2022
In the emphasis on family and community life, in contrast to the world of American commercial justice, the film contains a lesson about the virtue of real friendship.
Agency, Contingency, and Self-Destructive Acts
March 09, 2022
The task of living authentic moral lives is to develop the moral virtues that allow us to maintain agency.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Lenten Message to Catholics
February 22, 2022
For Lenten reflection and discipline, Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is among the finest
Ted Lasso, Self-Deception and Reconciliation
February 08, 2022
Through brilliant writing and impeccable comic timing, Ted Lasso resonates with profoundly Catholic themes
Is This the Last Anti-Roe v. Wade Protest?
January 20, 2022
During the weekend of 21-23 January, defenders of unborn human life will make their annual trek to Washington D.C. to express their opposition to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that struck down States’ laws restricting or reasonably regulating abortion. Unlike the prior 47 years, however, this year’s National March for Life will
New Year’s Irresolution
January 03, 2022
As Christians we should order our lives according to the liturgical calendar not the secular one
The Blessed Virgin’s decision as the Perfection of Freedom
December 16, 2021
The Virgin understood that only by giving herself was she truly herself
Discomfort Ye My People: On Advent and Exile
December 02, 2021
Remorse, repentance and resolution.
The extraordinary overruling of Roe v. Wade
May 03, 2022
The abortion wars in the US are not over, the battle lines have merely been redrawn
Pope Francis is correct: all war is unjust
April 29, 2022
But the oppressed are doing an act of charity if they can persuade whoever is attacking them to see the error of his ways
Learning how to be forgiven
March 30, 2022
By submitting to the authority of the Cross, we equip ourselves to give to others
Reading through the Lenten desert
March 01, 2022
These novels by Catholic writers can help us navigate our own spiritual drama
Why we need Black History Month
January 27, 2022
It’s a time to reflect on our own moral failure in matters of racial relationships
Abortion politics in the US
December 26, 2021
How the latest Supreme Court argument could shape future rulings
The joy of unexpected things
November 30, 2021
Why we should always believe in the mystery of Christmas
The Pope missed a golden opportunity at his meeting with Joe Biden
October 30, 2021
Pope Francis failed to show any pastoral responsibility at his meeting with the US President
Travelling together?
October 22, 2021
As the two-year Synod on Synodality gets under way, its vague objectives 
cast a shadow over a Church striving for universality
Standing firm and holding fast
August 26, 2021
The wisdom of Evelyn Waugh provides theological sustenance in these fractious times
Centesimus Annus After 30 Years
May 04, 2021
Like the sabbath, the economy is at the service of the human person, not vice versa. Thus, the measure of a moral economy is the development of the full human person.
The Politics of the Passion
March 30, 2021
Pilate came to flex imperial muscle. With a little shock and awe, he came to Jerusalem to remind the Jews that their primary identification was as Roman subjects.
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