Matthew Becklo

The time has come for me to take a break from X. I'll be funneling the added time and energy toward my new Substack here: matthewbecklo.substack.com

@DrJordanBCooper Godspeed!

It's been real, NY. New England couldn't keep me away forever.

Beyond the Beach Read: Catholic Thought Leaders Share Their Summer Reading Lists Featuring @PetriOP @maryfiorito @bishop_conley and more!⤵️ hubs.la/Q03wh4rc0

Why, writes Matthew Becklo, when so much of the world has embraced the revolution—when it would be so easy to leave or ignore the Church—do progressives desperately try to change the Church, to make it into something it’s not, and never can be? catholicworldreport.com/2025/07/07/on-…

“Weary of left/right, science/religion, ascetic/epicurean, faith/reason, either/or binaries?” “The Way of Heaven and Earth” by @MatthewBecklo “reveals the road to recovery,” writes Catholic counselor Peggy Haslar: on.wof.org/4eBnkPz

I saw. I memed. YOU'RE WELCOME INTERNET

From theology and biography to design and children’s literature, Word on Fire publications were recognized thirty-four times by judges of this year’s @CM_Association.  Learn more at on.wof.org/44bRGVp

Thank you @peggyhaslar for this thoughtful review of my book!

Today is the feast of St. Junipero Serra. Takes me back when Bishop Barron organized a coalition to stand athwart an attempt to vandalize the Saint’s statue at Santa Inez Mission. The effort failed. The mob dispersed. The statue remained.

Since becoming pope, Leo XIV, the "Son of Saint Augustine," has quoted the Doctor of Grace—by my count, and appropriately enough—no less than 33 times. That's an average of about once every 1.5 days.

The fallout of the sexual revolution is a moral crisis—in fact, the great moral crisis of our time—and the great moral opportunity. My latest for @cworldreport: catholicworldreport.com/2025/06/30/cat…

What if, rather than placating or ignoring or wishing away the progressive push, the Church simply began to resist it like never before? catholicworldreport.com/2025/06/30/cat…

Man is made up of soul and body: and assuredly, whom God frees, He frees the whole man. —Augustine, “On Continence”

@sola_chad No: wordonfire.org/articles/who-i…

Does the Roman Catholic Church’s unbiblical teachings about Mary PROMOTE and ENCOURAGE idolatry? 🤔🧐

@EricRSammons How does this misrepresent Vatican II? He never says "will" be saved or "will likely" be saved—only "can." Also, how do you square the charge that this position does "serious harm" to evangelization with Word on Fire's work and the countless converts and reverts who cite it?

I think Bishop Barron does a lot of good, but his muddled views regarding the potential salvation of non-Catholics (which distorts the tradition and even misrepresents Vatican II) does serious harm to the Church's evangelization efforts.

To remain humanist today, one has to become religious again. —René Girard

The Christian cannot slip out of the tension between heaven and earth. —Hans Urs von Balthasar, "Prayer"

The creature is a perpetual question addressed to God....He is the answer to the question which I am. —Hans Urs von Balthasar, "Prayer"

@canonlawyered Uh oh. I'm a stay cool dad and didn't even know it.

When its 100 degrees out, there are two kinds of middle-aged American dads: those who ask if it's "hot enough for ya?" and those who remind you to "stay cool." I have to decide which one I want to be.

War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures. May diplomacy silence the weapons! May nations chart their futures with works of peace, not with violence and bloodstained conflicts!