Faith, family, work, and life - all intertwined.
Permanent deacon of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. Husband, father of four sons, builder of Catholic technology, and writer of essays, fiction, and homilies.
A $60 billion company says its AI might be conscious. The Vatican disagrees. St. Teresa of Ávila - whose feast we celebrate this week - contributed to the thinking 450 years ago.
Two institutions, two different technology failures, the same underlying mistake. The question before the system turns out to have four parts. And a fifth.
The train from Rome to Valencia took seven hours, with a change in Barcelona.
Two Lamps, Issue 23: Saints John XXIII & Bruno of Cologne, the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican, an evening in February 1959
Two Lamps Companion - Issues 18 through 21 - September 2026
Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time | Galatians 1:13-24 | Psalm 16 | Luke 10:38-42
The meeting runs long. Everyone shares updates. Good conversation happens. And then no decision is actually made - because nobody in the room owns the discipline.
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) | Respect Life Sunday
He had been to Rome twice before - once for a conference in 2017, once for research in 2019 - and had experienced it both times as a city that was interesting in proportion to what you brought to it.
Two Lamps, Issue 22: Saints Thérèse of Lisieux & Rose of Viterbo, Thérèse's cell at the Carmel of Lisieux, an autumn afternoon in 1893