Matthew Becklo

Author of "The Way of Heaven and Earth: From Either/Or to the Catholic Both/And" (

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

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:
https://t.co/O7rnBCiWHl

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

@DrJordanBCooper Godspeed!

[National Catholic Register @NCRegister]

Beyond the Beach Read: Catholic Thought Leaders Share Their Summer Reading Lists

Featuring @PetriOP @maryfiorito @bishop_conley and more!⤵️

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[Catholic World Report @cworldreport]

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? https://t.co/IqkWq6blz2

[Word on Fire @WordOnFire]

“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: https://t.co/J8rsEbQRpe

[Lizzy Ewing 🦝🌾🌎 @bayoucitygirl]

I saw.
I memed.

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[Word on Fire @WordOnFire]

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 https://t.co/THhHe78Txp

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

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

[Peggy Haslar @peggyhaslar]

@MatthewBecklo The Way of Heaven and Earth made both my brain and my heart feel better. https://t.co/2F771FcLBh

[FrSteveGrunow @FrSteveGrunow]

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.

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

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.

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

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:
https://t.co/NUbXuBsaXn

[Catholic World Report @cworldreport]

What if, rather than placating or ignoring or wishing away the progressive push, the Church simply began to resist it like never before? https://t.co/BxRmRhDjgp

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

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

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

@sola_chad No: https://t.co/3EHf5Ouc1z

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

@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?

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

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

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

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

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

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

[Matthew Becklo @MatthewBecklo]

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

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

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!