Elio’s Pickle
If restaurants are also public health gatekeepers, can they demand my cholesterol numbers before I can order spaghettini primavera? Have me weigh in before that slice of molten chocolate cake?
The Great Convergence
Current problems in both the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches could providentially lead to a healing of the Great Schism.
Let’s Bring Back Gregorian Chant
Since Gregorian chant has not been banned, and since most people actually enjoy dabbling in another language once in a while, we might well inject the germs of beauty into our Masses.
Loudly Defending Freedom
The protesters in Ottawa are fighting against a danger particular to democracies: the tyranny of the majority.
Why Do I Teach?
Teachers are called to urging their students to climb onto those ancestral shoulders and see the distant shore where truth and beauty beckon, the very things that so animated the lives of those who came before us.
Catholic School Rescued at Historic Pennsylvania Parish
Due to the hard work and prayers of a few committed people, a Catholic school not only survived, but it was transformed.
Regional Managers or Successors to the Apostles?
Does Petrine supremacy mean that the pope can take power away from the world’s bishops and give it to a small group of Italian priests known as the Roman Curia?
Follow the Science!
Today, the command to “follow the science” is the perfect tool to speed the centralization of governmental power all in the name of combatting COVID-19.
Why the Blackout on Fetal Tissue Research Among Pro-Lifers?
While pro-lifers rightly march against the evil of abortion, we must not forget those who have been killed in the name of medical science.
The Ukrainian Crisis and the Geopolitics of Christendom
The secularized former Christendom is facing off against a Russia that wants to reclaim its imperialist – and Christian – past.
Truckers Bringing About a Canadian Spring
Canada has been beaten and abused, and many have forgotten how to fight. But out of nowhere have come the most unlikely of heroes who are set to stare down Trudeau: tens of thousands of truck drivers.
Rampant Sin and Cold Love
Priests need to stop accompanying sin and call out the abusers and heretics in their midst.
Letter to My Goddaughter Marrying Outside of the Church
What do you say to a loved one who is getting married outside the Church? Dr. Janet Smith shares a letter she sent to a loved one in this situation.
Unchaining Our Health
As Catholics are learning more and more about the role of fetal tissue research in modern medicine, they are asking how they can break free from its chains.
Putting the Pope on the Pillory
Recent accusations against Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI remind us that the Church is still in need of a deep scouring.
The Christian Response in the Age of an Epidemic
The Church’s response to COVID is driven by “concern for the safety of our members and the vulnerable”—a rationale that would have struck early Christians as strange.
Mourning the Loss
Modernism, as an ideological stance, is essentially iconoclastic. It exists principally by standing in judgment against what has existed, even when what has existed is profoundly and naturally human.
The Generational Divide in the Priesthood
A generational divide is at the heart of the wider divisions of faith currently roiling the Church, with younger priests more traditional than their older compatriots.
Women Deserve Men Who Oppose Abortion
Legalized abortion is, in part, due to the catastrophic moral and spiritual failure of men—especially Christian men—who have stood on the sidelines for so long.