Essays/Documents

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Preparation, Killing and Communion
An anthropological and scriptural exploration of male sacrifice, the priesthood, and the Christian nation

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The Missing Icon: Masculine Fraternity and the Priesthood
A 5000 word essay making an anthropological and eucharistic argument for the male priesthood arguing that a male group under a leader is a fundamental form of religious and biological communion.

Respecting Authority: Fraternal Dialogue and Reliable Witness
A 1700 word essay about the limits of priestly authority, the need for debate for true dialogue and the docsociety reform strategy of increasing episcopal and priestly authority as the only way to reform the priesthood and restore the credibility of our corporate witness as Catholics in America.

Philia, Purity Codes, and Psychology
A 780 word essay on the failure of modern psychology to understand the purifying codes of the church's sacramental life in refining eros in marriage and phiilia in the priesthood to express agape in the Church.

Whatever Happened to Social Justice: Church Bureaucrat as Generational Narcissist
A 760 word essay on the great hoax of feminism and church equity posing as social justice in a world groaning to awake to the southern hemisphere's movement toward global christianity.

Orate Fratres: Liturgical Renewal and Brotherhood
A 780 word essay on the radical Eucharistic understanding of Dom Virgil Michel and the call to Christian brotherhood.

Why Celibacy?
A 1400 word essay on evangelization, evil, eschatology and ecclesia.

Deus est caritas
God is Love. Pope Benedict's first encyclical on the nature of Christian love.

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Letter and Ad in St Paul Pioneer Press
This was signed by 144 Catholic men to Fr Dease and Archbishop Flynn asking for public discussion of their action in blocking Archbishop Nienstedt and future archbishops from their rightful place on UST Board.

Chrism Mass homily on the priesthood by Pope Benedict XVI

Chrism Mass homily on the priesthood by Pope Benedict XVI on Holy Thursday morning--the traditonal litiurgical time when priests of a diocese gather to renew vows and fraternity under the local bishop.