Robert B. Greving

Robert B. Greving teaches Latin and English grammar at a Maryland high school. Mr. Greving served five years in the U.S. Army J.A.G. Corps following his graduation from the Dickinson School of Law.

recent articles

Whatever Happened to the Holy Ghost? 

In a frenzy to make themselves feel relevant, 60’s churchmen did violence to Church language, and with it our understanding. It may be time to revisit the prudence of them having “given up the Ghost.”

The Pope of Ironies 

The reign of Pope Francis was one filled with apparent incongruities and even contradictions.

Why Are They Leaving? 

Before asking what to do with those who want to come to America, it may be helpful to ask why they are seeking to leave their homeland in the first place. And what can we do about that? 

Dishonest Agreement

The pope’s comment that “All religions are a path to God” was another instance where he says something which sounds charitable—and was likely meant charitably—but, in the end, turns out not to be so. 

What Kamala Will Face

Kamala Harris, the woman appointed as the “People’s Choice,” will find it difficult going if she is elected in November.

On (Un)Civil Discourse 

One of the purposes of politics is persuasion. We are not persuading others when we call them names and insult them.

Who Are the Guardians of Tradition?

The third and final episode in the “Mass of the Ages” documentary trilogy traces the renewed interest in—and renewed attacks against—the traditional Latin Mass.

Lent and Taxes

An unjust law is no law. And I would offer the proposition that the current tax system is unjust.

God’s Preemptive Strikes

Usually, the Church proclaims a dogma in reaction to a spreading heresy. But the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption were preemptively declared to prepare for future heresies.

Dodger Blues

Baseball is the “national pastime,” the most integrating—and the most integrated—of all professional sports. Now it sees fit to attack members of the nation’s largest religious group.

Why So Serious?

What young people need most right now is not so much understanding, compassion, antidepressants, or therapy; they need a good belly laugh, preferably at their own expense. 

Fighting Catholic Gaslighting

Trying to make Catholics believe that any criticism of past fallible Church decisions demonstrates unfaithfulness is gaslighting and should be resisted.

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