Archive - The Distant Shore

The Foundation Beneath the Spire

Politics and Its Place

Jul 28 • William Mahoney, PhD

Politics and the Last End

The Disciple in the World. What Is He Supposed to Do There?

Jul 21 • William Mahoney, PhD

The Church and Caesar

Who Judges Whom?

Jul 14 • William Mahoney, PhD

The Kingdom and the Ballot

Christ Cannot Be Reduced to Political Categories

Jul 7 • William Mahoney, PhD

June 2026

The Limits of the Keys

Can Authority Be Real Without Being Infallible?

Jun 23 • William Mahoney, PhD

What Can Change?

Dogma, Doctrine, and Discipline in the Life of the Church

Jun 16 • William Mahoney, PhD

Medicine, Not Damnation

Why Excommunication Exists

Jun 9 • William Mahoney, PhD

The Punishment Fits the Crime

The Church's Penalties Are Not Arbitrary

Jun 2 • William Mahoney, PhD

May 2026

The Mind That Closed

Pride and the Loss of Receptivity to Truth

May 26 • William Mahoney, PhD

If Many Are Lost, Has God Failed?

Providence and the Joy of the Blessed

May 19 • William Mahoney, PhD

The Question Is the Problem

The Faithful Are Not Forced to Choose Between God and the Church

May 12 • William Mahoney, PhD

The Rock and the Projectile

The Formal Defect of Reactive Catholic Discourse

May 5 • William Mahoney, PhD

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