The Case for a Diocesan Priestly Promise of Poverty
A diocesan priestly promise of poverty could make the priesthood more appealing to the right men and less appealing to the wrong.
Transcending the Evolution-Creation Debate
Recent scientific developments and philosophical interpretations of these developments can lead to a greater unity among Catholics debating evolution.
Seeing Easter in a Sonnet
What is the sound we hear that alone may dispel the darkness, vanquishing beneath its wings the dangers that assail us? Nothing less than the Third Person of the Trinity.
Newborns, Primaries—and the Gift of Simplicity?
The business of election season threatens to overwhelm us; memories of God and family can keep our perspective on what really matters.
The Conservative Ghost Dance
Conservatives who appeal to traditional aspects of American polity as a means of defeating the new seemingly unstoppable threat to the world they have known are setting themselves up for disaster.
Easter: Launching the Revolution of the Cross
Easter is the unleashing of the Revolution of the Cross. It should be unsettling, like an earthquake. Wondrous, as the explosion of galaxies. Penetrating, as the sound of a thousand marching armies.
Hands Off Easter!
There’s a movement afoot to fix a common date for Easter by 2025. It’s a movement fraught with problems.
Rousing the Realm of the Dead
In the life of Christ, there is an event tucked away between Friday’s death and Sunday’s rising about which we know very little. Yet it contains the hidden key on which the whole story turns.
The Passion of Christ’s Church
We find ourselves at the tail end of this long Lent which comes to us a decade into this long and difficult papacy.
Like a Dish That Is Broken…
On Good Friday we are reminded of the value of our at times seemingly valueless lives.
The Curé Few Want
There is a major identity crisis today in the priesthood. It is a rupture, or at the very least an attempt to disconnect from the burden of its deep-rooted identity as one who offers sacrifice.
The Themes of Holy Thursday
The Holy Eucharist, the ministerial priesthood, and fraternal charity are intimately bound together in the mystery of Holy Thursday.
Theology of the Body vs. Body Mutilations
John Paul II’s TOB was anchored in an anthropology still recognizably rooted in Catholicism, whereas the latest trends in body mutilations seemingly treat the body as a platform,
A Time for Renaissance Men
We need to go beyond simply deleting apps from our smartphones. We need to go further as to ensure that our hands are not becoming precariously idle. We need to become Renaissance men.
The Cancelling of Christianity
Nothing will placate the transgender community other than the cancelling of Christianity.
The Preferential Option for the Poor Sinner
Our Lord does not see rich or poor, privileged or unfortunate, low class or high. He sees only fallen men and women whom He loves.
In Defense of “Thoughts and Prayers”
There is power in prayer, especially when people—a family, a community, a nation—pray together.
Casting Down the Strange Gods
Catholics who feel somewhat cast adrift in the choppy waters of modernism and innovation would do well to make Mother Francis’ acquaintance.
Losing Friends in the Age of Covid, Trump, and Trans
A few years ago, I noticed a certain frostiness from my long-time friend. He would not answer my emails and would not pick up the phone.