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.
Is Traditionalism an Essence or a Reaction?
Second-wave traditionalists are often less ideologically-driven than first-wave traditionalists, but instead have simply found no allure in the predominant Catholicism of recent decades.
Bitter Pills
Being “pastoral” is good, but it can often serve as a lazy cover for not dishing out the bitter medicine the congregant needs to swallow.
What Is a Bishop?
Too often our bishops today are legal, financial, sacramental, and practical administrators, but that is not their fundamental divine calling.
In the Age of AI, “Even the Very Elect Will Be Deceived”
AI may have reason and logic on its side. But it undermines not only theistic understandings of the soul and human spirit, of love and free will, but also the very essence of these transcendental pillars.
Why Your Catholic Men’s Group Will Eventually Fold
Many of the men who are in most need of Catholic male fellowship are in the worst position to make it happen: mid-career, young and growing family, demands on time to balance everything…anything that isn’t work or family gets pushed to the back burner.
