Between the omnipotence of God, who holds all creation in being, and the impotence of men, who possess no claim whatsoever on being, there remains an impassible barrier which no creature may presume to breach.
Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans that we clearly know God through His creation, so how is it that so many can’t do just that?
Lent is coming upon us quickly this year! Will we sit still long enough to slow it down, or just let another one pass us by?
There is no folly quite like a man who asserts his independence while standing in a world he neither created nor comprehends, and whose inevitable departure is more mysterious than his humble arrival.
Every Christian, great and small, across two millennia, in every tribe and nation, has heard the warn-out taunt about believing in fairy tales.
Modern scientific atheism (A.K.A. scientism) is just a dogmatic assertion that dismisses God, meaning, and purpose, reducing the universe to a mindless chaos of accidental stuff.
The reality of Emmanuel, God with us, demands a response from both those who believe and those who don’t.
Most Christians, including Paul, would say the Resurrection is the basis of our entire faith, but without creation, there can be no Incarnation or Resurrection.
While scientific inquiry and advances have changed the world we live in, it does not have the power to penetrate even a centimeter into the primary question of God.
True union with God comes not by escaping time but by coursing through it with Christ, its creator and consummator.
France really is the purest distillate of what postmodern man actually looks like. It is not a pretty sight.
Christopher Dawson’s legacy was to document as learnedly as he knew how both the natural and the necessary connection between religion and culture.
Who was this extraordinary young woman, Joan of Arc? And why should it matter that, nearly six centuries after her death, that homage be paid to her memory?
There is no Christian culture if the Church commissioned to preach into it falls silent, or worse.
A culture without public prayer is a culture that no political intervention can preserve.
A well-ordered society requires the presence of three essential relationships: man’s connection to the world, to one another, and to God.
To live a full human life as a being composed of a body and soul united, a human society must account for and even point us to both – but how?
Saint Paul said that no man would be excused from the knowledge of the true God, in that visible creation so clearly pointed to the invisible Creator.
There are no political solutions to the current decline of Western culture.
Long before woke, the separation of church and state was the first virtue signal.