Author - Matthew J. Cressler

Matthew J. Cressler is a scholar of religion and the creator of the educational webcomic series Bad Catholics, Good Trouble. He has written for America, The Atlantic, National Catholic Reporter, Religion News Service, The Revealer, Slate, and Zocalo Public Square. You can find him on Twitter @mjcressler.

Christmas is spooky season, too

Matthew J. Cressler

Yes, the FBI is problematic. So are Catholic nationalists.

Matthew J. Cressler

Earlier this month, a former special agent leaked an internal memo from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Richmond, Virginia field office. The memo claimed...

You can’t have a Catholic imagination without horror

Matthew J. Cressler

I recently found myself in conversation on St. Pope John Paul II’s classic 1999 Letter to Artists. In it he writes about how these “ingenious creators of...

Author - Matthew J. Cressler

Christmas is spooky season, too

Yes, the FBI is problematic. So are Catholic nationalists.

You can’t have a Catholic imagination without horror

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