Dirty Christians and Miserable Sinners
Shia LaBeouf’s rocky conversion is not as unusual as one might think.
The Pervasive Vice of Passivity
The always-online smartphone culture is training our brains to favor passive behaviors and lazy thinking.
Meet the New Porn: Even Worse than the Old Porn
Pornography soaks the minds of those who consume it in unrealities that, in turn, ruin lives in reality. AI, in all its uses, may turn out to be even worse.
The Elimination of Work: An Affront to Man’s Dignity
Is a world without the necessity of human labor a better world for humans?
The Worth of a Thousand Words
If there were a way to escape from the “always-on” technological prison of our smartphones, would we even attempt it?
Why “Anti-Vaxxers” May Have the Best Shot at Heaven
Virtue is a habit that begins with being faithful in small things.
The Dangers of the TLM Fight Club
Nothing less than virtue must be the guiding principle of our love for tradition, and this must be especially true for men.
What’s Old Is New
We see the “rediscovery” of the TLM taking place in people who were not alive when either Archbishop Lefebvre or John Paul II were and who have no emotional baggage or trauma from the indult era.
The Wishful Thinking of Deathbed Conversions
The sacrament of reconciliation is the ‘Clavis David’ in opening up heaven to the repentant sinner, but waiting for the hour of death is like playing a game of Russian Roulette with your soul.
No Way Home
To be a “Cultural Catholic,” is to empty the Gospel of its transforming power; it is living a lukewarm life.
Mid-Lent and Midlife
I’m doing all the “right” things—praying, weekly Mass and Holy Hours, daily Rosary, almsgiving, giving God His due—and still not progressing in any discernable degree of holiness.
Humans > Humanity
The society the technocrats want to usher in to help humanity is one that is highly efficient in solving many problems, but will be terrible for actual humans.
How to Raise the Dead
When the spiritual bricks are firm in their foundation, and you are in a state of grace, could there be natural steps you can take to bring yourself back from the proverbial dead and reclaim your raison d’être?
Avoiding Elitism
Traditional Catholics must be on guard against feelings of superiority in relation to other Catholics.
Saved Through Childbearing
Children have a way of stretching you beyond what you think you can bear. They are both blessing and cross; joy you never thought you could experience and pain you wish you never did.
Seeking the Stylite
Modern man seeks noise, distraction, adulation, and attention; but solitude and silence are the rare spiritual treasures we should seek.
The National Eucharistic Congress: It’s Not About Jesus
We can encounter Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament at our local parish. So why did so many attend the National Eucharistic Congress?
The Difference Between a Good Man and a Saint
The saint, on the surface, may be all the things the respectable man is not—a holy fool, or a man of contradiction and uncouthness. He is always “a bit much.”
Thomas à Kempis and the Modern Devotion
What makes a spiritual classic such as The Imitation of Christ so timeless and enduring?
Who Are “The Poor” Anyway?
Well-meaning Christians can sometimes struggle with exercising the prudence required of being a steward of wealth in making concrete determinations of where and to whom to give.