Is Speculative Investing Immoral?
Is it okay for Catholics to engage in speculative investing? Or is it making a profit without adding any value to it, which St. Thomas Aquinas calls cheating?
Catholiphobia in Connecticut Classrooms
A recent sting by Project Veritas shows that anti-Catholic discrimination is still alive and well in the United States.
The Digitalization of Man
It’s a brave new world out there right now, with all of these various attempts by people to recreate reality in their own image.
Rings of Power: Jeff Bezos’s Billion Dollar Anti-Tolkien Fan Fiction
Whatever else Rings of Power may be, it is not Tolkien; nor is it—as the opening credits claim—based on The Lord of the Rings and its appendices in any meaningful way.
What’s Happening to Work?
The paradox of Labor Day 2022 is that Americans seem less and less inclined to labor.
Perelandra: Dreadful Good and Reasonable Evil
Good and evil, it turns out, are not so clichéd as we like to comfortably think; for good can be deeply unpleasant, while evil can seem both unstoppable and even reasonable.
A Different Kind of Catholic
I’m an angry, disgusted Catholic these days. I’m stunned, horrified, furious, and grieved. But the way is narrow, the Cross is calling, and I want to finish the race marked out for me. I cannot do it without the Church.
Can a Person Die More Than Once?
The conflicting dates given for celebrity Anne Heche’s death reflect a culture trying to redefine what it means to die.
Could Student Loan Forgiveness Portend the End of Catholic Colleges?
The government-backed student loan program has led to a bubble in college costs, and may spell the end for faithful Catholic schools.
What Does the Bible Say About Student Loan Forgiveness?
Far from a biblical Jubilee, President Biden’s student loan forgiveness decree is a pagan jamboree.
What Draws the Caveman to Catholicism?
How Shia LeBeouf’s Conversion Gives Insight into What Attracts Millennials, Particularly Men, to the Church.
Proclaim Inclusivity to All the Nations
Diversity and inclusion have completely replaced the Gospel as the raison d’être of many protestant denominations, and that ideology threatens to infect Catholicism as well.
A Jailed Priest’s Word of Thanks and Exhortation
A priest currently in jail for protecting the unborn exhorts us all to love more and sacrifice more.
Shia LaBeouf Finds the Pearl of Great Price
LaBeouf’s attraction to Catholicism came from his immersion into the Church’s life. No pastoral program, no bishops’ conference initiative, no academic monograph “sold” him the Faith.
On Becoming a Saint
It is an axiom of membership among believing Roman Catholics that nothing matters more than the pursuit of holiness
America’s Voluntary Military Suicide
The military’s rapidly expanding homosexual culture threatens to undermine our country’s ability to defend itself.
When Did John Lose His Head?
Some nominal Catholics want it both ways: acquiescing in, if not promoting, the contemporary ethic while having some sentimental moments about old John the Baptist.
The Waste Land in a Nutshell
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is probably the most influential poem of the twentieth century.
Our Sad Abandonment of the Souls of the Unborn
The souls of unborn children enter eternity with free will but no (or precious little) information on which to base a decision. Would they be denied that information? Would Christ not preach to them?
Loving Your Country Enough to Hate It
Patriotism is a virtue, which means that to grow in love of nation would mean to grow in virtue.