Time to Pick Up the Cross of Beauty
A notorious case of sliding downhill with the prevailing culture is clothing.
Breaking Up With Toxic Femininity
The seeming pendulum swing away from what we think of as feminism on the left is nothing more than feminism on the right. Femininity is something entirely different.
Propriety: A Skill to Help Avoid Near Occasions of Sin and Scandal—and to Grow in a Happy Life
Modernity prioritizes authenticity over propriety, but propriety is rooted in humility and charity, fosters discernment and reverence, and guides us to live virtuously and selflessly.
The Pope and Donald Trump: Addressing the Blurred Lines Between the Sacred and Profane
When we fail to find offense in the profane, all we are doing is revealing how dramatically we’ve lost our sense of the sacred.
Mary’s Fiat: The Choice of True Freedom
Catholics for Choice is promoting the antithesis of Our Lady, the attitude of “I will not serve” the “non servium” of Satan.
Harrison Butker’s Courageous Defense of Women
It needed to be said: Our careers are not our vocations.
When Porn Stars and an Atheist Remind Us of the Grace of God
Signs of God’s active work in the world are all around us, but too many Christians are closing their eyes to them.
Renouncing the “High-Value Man”
It is true that we desperately need good men. Masculinity is a good and necessary gift from God. But we need masculine men, not “high-value men.”