Understanding Evil in the Idaho Murders
The mounting evil of our increasingly secular society cannot be banished from this earth, but we must reject it all the same.
All of It Is Queer
“We are so back” is a current meme indicating how some part of “woke” culture has been pushed back, but even the most anti-woke conservatives stand defenseless against gay culture.
Premises Have Conclusions
To say that the Church’s social teaching is separate from her teachings regarding sex is to get each one of them wrong—and to fail to recognize the sociality of the truths themselves.
Sadness and Loss at Sacred Heart Major Seminary
After 20+ years of service each, three professors are let go without so much as an informal warning.
The Tour de France and the Interior Life
What can the Tour de France, one of the most physically challenging sporting events in the world, teach us about prayer and faith?
Superman and the Human Hero
The new Superman movie is not just another jaded, woke, superhero outing. It is a joyful, hopeful romp on the human side of heroism—and a bright allegory for the Christian life in the complicated context of a modern mythology.
You Mistake Me for a Boomer When I Am a Jones
Blame is often placed on Boomers for all the guitar masses, horrible catechesis, and felt banners. But is that fair?
John Senior’s Star Is Rising
John Senior’s project to restore learning to education is sending up new shoots across America, with St. Andrew’s Academy in Kentucky celebrating its second year.
Should Faithful Catholics Welcome Layoffs at National Catholic Reporter?
Pro-choice, same-sex marriage, and women’s ordination advocates may have to find another site to vent their anger at the Catholic Church now that the National Catholic Reporter has laid off some of their biggest allies.
Let the Seventies Die
There are many things the Church in the 60’s and 70’s smashed and painted over that are easy to identify, but it has been the less obvious shifts in language that did more damage.
The Coordinated Global Assault on Opus Dei
Critics of Opus Dei who would like for the new pope to end Opus Dei may find their best laid attacks avail to nothing.
Leonard Leo: Hero of the Faith and of the Republic
There are many hidden saints living amongst us who not only inspire the lives of those who know them, but have quietly confounded seemingly insurmountable evils in the world.
Jaws at 50: We’re Still Going to Need a Bigger Boat
What does an iconic 70’s film have to say to us about Christianity and culture today?
Liturgical Stooges
The project of “modernizing” ancient hymns turned into a search for rhyming words, at the cost of original meaning.
Gen Z Finds Meaning in Traditional Religion
The youth are looking for an alternative to the world presented to them by our godless society. The Catholic Church can’t just offer to them more of the world.
Let the Forgetting Begin
Over the length of the Francis pontificate, those with even a slight whiff of concern were labeled “anti-Francis,” or having “attacked” Francis, or had even become heretics.
Pope Leo XIV Is a Gift to US Catholic Colleges and Universities
The alma mater of the first American Pope, Villanova University, has since abandoned its Catholic identity. Can Pope Leo XIV help to reverse this widespread trend?
Catholics Welcome the Beginning of a Paradigm Shift at the United Nations
With all the focus on the first 100 days, Trump’s ongoing influence in reshaping discussions on abortion and gender ideology are promises made and kept.
The Silly Season in Rome
The time between the passing of a pontiff and the election of a new one is a time when Rome may be at its worst, a time of whispers, goofy rumors, and even calumny.
The Field Hospital Needs Doctors
To be called merciful an act must be oriented to the ultimate good of the person, namely, their eternal salvation.