Sins against sexuality lie at the root of Western moral decay and the spiritual poverty that follows it. The Church should proclaim its teachings on sexuality with unapologetic confidence.
A sober analysis of our society reveals that theft—or its close cousin, the replacement of high quality by something inferior—now drive both the economy and the culture.
The sign of good Catholics would be, first and foremost, how they tried to love God with their whole minds and hearts, with their whole bodies and souls, and with their whole strength.
How many souls are there for whom salvation is less than a half-minute away! If only, that is, they allow themselves to be awakened from the sleep of sin long enough to be surprised by grace.
As this galloping New Orthodoxy captures young heart after young heart, the Fr. Thomas Reeses of the spent Society of Jesus rage as they raise their clenched fists.
It is comforting to see the hand of God working through his warrior angel to defend the faithful against the dragon time and again throughout history.
The quest for the true West is still possible, and it’s closer than you might think.
I will not rehearse the theological disputes here. You are an intelligent man, and you can do your reading. I will only ask you to consider the charity of your patron, St. Augustine.
The persistent Enlightenment myth of the Noble Savage has captured the Christian imagination, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.
Banning reparative therapy for same-sex-attracted individuals harms children and adults by denying them access to potential healing and self-understanding.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Modern empiricism has impoverished “science” by dismissing metaphysics as pseudoscience, yet every scientific endeavor relies on foundational assumptions that cannot be proven or tested.
