Truth Is Not a What, but a Who
When Pilate asked “What is truth?” he did not stay for an answer. Yet the answer was standing before him, and its silence spoke more eloquently than any argument.
Stories From the Silver Screen: Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire tells the story of two outsiders driven to greatness, but only one of them, Eric Liddell, runs not for himself but for the glory of God.
But for Harvard?
When the opening salvo from leaders at the world’s top universities is a denial of the existence of truth, we need to ask ourselves what it is that they intend to teach.
Stories From the Silver Screen: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
While Close Encounters of the Third Kind could not be called a Christian-themed film, it draws on and out a childlike wonder found in a light that is not of this world.
Stories From the Silver Screen: Babette’s Feast
The lavish feast at the center of the film “Babette’s Feast” is a picture of the Eucharist and God’s boundless, self-giving love.
Stories From the Silver Screen: The Diary of a Country Priest
The Diary of a Country Priest dives deep into the hidden suffering of the alter Christus, whom Christ sends into the wilderness to retrieve the one lost sheep.
Stories From the Silver Screen: The Jeweler’s Shop
The film “The Jeweler’s Shop,” based on the play written by Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, explores the meaning of marriage.
Stories From the Silver Screen: A Man for All Seasons
Paul Scofield had been given the best, the most inspired lines an actor could possibly ask for in playing the character of England’s Lord Chancellor and a future saint of the Catholic Church.
He Just Wanted to Go Home—On Reading Homer’s The Odyssey
Odysseus’s desperate and unrelenting battle to return to his homeland mirrors mankind’s universal struggle to return, amidst distraction and misfortune, to our everlasting home.
Stories From the Silver Screen
If we are to meet each man where he is in order to draw him into the light, it seems we might have to start in the dark setting of moving pictures.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XVI
The great gift of Being rather than nothingness can only be reciprocated with gratitude.
A Story so Stunning It Would Be a Sin Not to Share It!
Flannery O’Connor proposes an answer to the why of our addictions, distractions, and need for noise.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XV
Save for Christ alone, our very existence would itself be an unimaginably grim death blow.
On Saying Goodbye to Vietnam
For me, certainly, Vietnam has always been one of the two or three most formative and decisive experiences of my life. I say that because I was one of those few young Americans sent over there to fight it.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XIV
God, Who Is, did not create anything for its usefulness to Himself, but simply to be loved by Him.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XIII
“To continue living forever—endlessly—appears more like a curse than a gift.”
Will Hoyt: Wayfarer in a New World
Hoyt’s latest book is a last shot across the bow of the ship, warning us about the fast approaching and all engrossing technocratic world.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XII
Ultimately, all the awful things now impacting our lives will be swallowed up by time. We can instead set our minds on God, Whom time cannot mar.
On Sanctifying Sodomy
The Final Report of Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality is a jaw-drooping attack on Scripture and everything that the Church has ever taught concerning sodomy.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XI
Why do we pay attention to atheists when they condescend to tell us the truth about God, which is that He does not exist? Or anything at all touching on matters of the spirit, when they make no provision for it in their system?