Thank God for Reparative Therapy
Banning reparative therapy for same-sex-attracted individuals harms children and adults by denying them access to potential healing and self-understanding.
Beyond Christian Nationalism
If we fear God and seek to live up to what we profess as Christians, then being called a Christian Nationalist should be a wake-up call.
Will Bishops Give the Surge of Catholics Ephesus—or the City of Man?
For young people, “dialogue”—U.S. bishops’ favorite buzzword—has become an eight-letter vulgarity. They’ve been choked, nearly to death, by the drowning tide of moral pus—the dialogue-minefields of LGBTQ+, BLM, and DEI, etc.—while few bishops helped them to break the surface.
A Tale of Two Forms of TDS
If Trump Derangement Syndrome exaggerates faults, Trump Devotion Syndrome does the exact opposite. At the present moment, it may be the more dangerous of the two.
Why Are So Many Afraid of the Catholic Revival?
While many voices scramble to explain (or explain away) the surge of young people entering the Church, they’re ignoring the most obvious cause, namely, the supernatural First Cause.
Sterilizing the Poor with Despair
We have more now, even among those who consider themselves poor, than even royalty of previous generations could have dreamt of. But we have replaced material destitution with spiritual poverty.
The Novus Ordo and the Interior Life
The Novus Ordo can be celebrated reverently, but to do so requires a rich interior life of a priest, lest the temptations of the Mass strip him of the august dignity in which he participates.
Long Live the Epstein Files
The enormity of the files is only emphasized by their lack of emphasis, and it is the duty of Catholics to drill in on the truth as opposed to the news.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part X
There will never be a time, therefore, when even the best and the brightest bulbs among us shall know all that there is to know concerning God.
Trump Is Not of Our Tribe
Christianity is not Trump’s native tongue. He does not know our language or our ways, and he does not understand that you cannot go after the pope.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? — Another Perspective
Modern empiricism has impoverished “science” by dismissing metaphysics as pseudoscience, yet every scientific endeavor relies on foundational assumptions that cannot be proven or tested.
A Lion in Springtime
Pope Leo is proving to be a surprisingly savvy leader in successfully navigating the intense political and cultural tensions within the Catholic Church and the wider world.
How Rose Hawthorne Brought Me Back to the Church
Venerable Rose Hawthorne, whose cause for canonization was opened in 2003, is my heroine not only because she lived a life of heroic virtue but because she brought me back to the Catholic Faith.
Cleveland’s Echo on the Edge of Darkness and Light: “Love Will End Abortion”
An unlikely pairing—pro-life whites and inspired blacks—have merged as allies in front of Ohio’s deadliest abortuary.
Is Science the Last Bastion of Sanity?
As we look forward to landing on the moon in 2028, we cannot afford to miss a golden opportunity to enhance the humanities precisely through science.
Donald Trump’s Tirade at the Vicar of Christ
This escalating battle between the American president and American pope is prompting many conservative Catholics to choose a side.
Anatomy of a Catholic Classic: Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair at 75
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering in order that they may have existence.” (Léon Bloy, epigraph to The End of the Affair)
Moral Miscalculation: America’s Misunderstanding of Iran Is Leading to Catastrophe
To form a proper moral judgment on this conflict, Catholics need to know the real history of America’s troubled relations with Iran and the source of its conflict with this ancient civilization.
Going in to the Altar of God
It seems to me that many young people, and people entering their thirties, are too anxious to make life choices grounded in practicalities, natural desires, and the normal flow of life.
Courage, Conviction, and the Culture of Death
What began as the “live and let live” slogan of the LGBT is ending in prison time for anyone who dares to say, “this is wrong,” and “what you are doing is sinful.”