Seek His Face Evermore: St. Augustine and the Quest for God
Who among us is erudite enough to set about measuring the immensity of the achievement wrought by Augustine, whose depths clearly defy one’s best efforts to plumb?
Are We All Pelagians Now?
For many modern followers of Pelagius, getting into Heaven is nothing more than a self-help enterprise, the result of simply willing the good, bypassing the need for grace along the way.
Christ Our Hope
For all the turmoil of the times in which we live, our lives nevertheless remain secure because they are filled with the expectation that God has already gone to prepare a place for us.
God Is Not Time’s Adversary
Not even time itself will remain undisturbed by God having entered fully into its rhythm and flow, imbuing it with a meaning it had not known before.
The Ultimate D-Day
For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the example of D-Day should remind us of another and very different battle, one which was fought a long time ago and on a far greater scale.
We Must Know Ourselves To Give of Ourselves
If you can only love what you know, then not knowing who you are prevents your either knowing or loving anyone else.
Why We Go
At Mass we are swept utterly away from the workaday world we know, summoned across the threshold of time and space, in order that we may be ushered into the very presence of God Himself.
Our Greatest Pilgrim Poet?
Not since the great Metaphysical Poets of the Elizabethan Age has there been such a flowering of creative genius as seen in the verse of just one 20th century poet, T.S. Eliot.
Conservatives Clinging to Christ
The Catholics I know cling not to the past but to Christ, the truth of whose life and message may most reliably be found in those very “dogmatic boxes” we’re now expected to climb out of.
The Quest for the True Cross
The reality of the True Cross, found by St. Helena, testifies to the historical facts behind the Gospel, and thereby behind our salvation.
The True Face of Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism, we need to remind ourselves, is a Christian heresy that has been around since the beginning and, like a bad penny, keeps showing up to inflict its poison upon the world.
An Unexamined Death is not Worth Dying
We must be determined to identify those few necessary things we must affirm in order to arrive safely on the other side.
On Beginnings and Endings
What Eliot is trying to tell us is that the end will always be found in the beginning, and that when we finally do come to the end, it will have been granted to us so that once more we may return to the beginning.
Living in the Modern Dark Ages
Those who are chiefly responsible for the gathering Dark Age work hard to try and keep the rest of us from seeing it.
A Moment of Time Gave the Meaning
If the evidence exonerates Jesus of either lying or lunacy, then perhaps He really was the Logos of God. Yes, it really did happen!
On Losing the War and Being Twice Blest for It
One needs more than a swashbuckling good story of brave men and the wives and mothers they left behind when they went off to fight and die. One needs a theology.
Sin: Fighting Against Our True Nature
Sin consists of the refusal to submit, to follow the form given us in being. It is to thwart the whole trajectory of our nature.
The Blood-Thirsty Democrats
Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent visit to an abortion clinic highlights how much the Democratic Party has embraced child-killing.
Lead Us Not Into Temptation
We are all experts when it comes to temptation, but sadly we are all failures at it as well.