Beware the Priest as Clown
The priest as clown is worse than a heretic who leads God’s people along the wrong path. The clown priest leads God’s people into not regarding God at all—a spiritual shrug and disinterested blasphemy.
You Mistake Me for a Boomer When I Am a Jones
Blame is often placed on Boomers for all the guitar masses, horrible catechesis, and felt banners. But is that fair?
Thoughts About the Mass for Care of Creation
Can Pope Leo XIV build bridges from Pope Francis’ arguably liberal mouthpiece encyclicals to something squarely Catholic?
Take Courage and Show Thyself a Man
We live in a fraught time, full of discord and uncertainty—precisely the time God created you for.
Overturn Bostock!
While the Supreme Court rejected the infamous “textualist decision” Bostock’s logic in a recent decision, it needs to do the right thing and overturn that case.
John Senior’s Star Is Rising
John Senior’s project to restore learning to education is sending up new shoots across America, with St. Andrew’s Academy in Kentucky celebrating its second year.
What’s Old Is New
We see the “rediscovery” of the TLM taking place in people who were not alive when either Archbishop Lefebvre or John Paul II were and who have no emotional baggage or trauma from the indult era.
Should the Catholic Church Embrace Homeschooling?
Homeschooling has continued see growth among Catholic parents. Is it time for the Church to officially support it?
Parish Priests Are the Cure to the Crisis
If parishes are giving better catechesis and liturgy, emphasizing Confession, and building devotion to the Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin Mary, shouldn’t they be seeing more fruit?
A Saint of and for Our Times
The next round of canonizations includes a layman who stood for marriage in remote Papua New Guinea.
Configuring All Things to Christ
Christianity is mere personal piety if it does not penetrate into every aspect of our public life—the culture at large—and we must insist on bringing it there.
Egypt Must Not Confiscate St. Catherine’s Monastery
St. Catherine’s Monastery has continuously fostered vocations at the foot of Mount Sinai since the sixth century. Its future, however, has come under siege from the Egyptian government.
Doing Politics Without God
The United States, founded upon freedom of religion, has turned rather into freedom from religion.
Vianney, Plump, and Meyer—Indiana’s Miracle Men
Knowing he could not simply keep doing what had been done, a young priest tried something different: an imitation of something old.
The New Romanticism: Hope and Caution for the Church Today
While most of us are alarmed by secular culture, aptly captured in Swift’s “New Romantics,” it might just be fertile soil for the perennial beauty that springs from the seeds of Catholic tradition.
The Mercy of Withholding the Eucharist
The Church has never and will never change her teaching on the unworthy reception of Holy Communion—she can’t. But our Bishops must change their 60’s-rooted praxis of allowing it to happen.
The Importance of a Veneer
The external trappings of Catholicism are vital for passing on the Faith, and should be encouraged even when the underlying doctrine isn’t fully proclaimed.
Dr. YoungHoon Kim: How the World’s Highest IQ Confirms the Harmony Between Science and Christian Doctrine
Advancements in science are pushing many to question a strict materialist view of human consciousness—including the man who has the highest IQ.
The Influencer Illusion: Reclaiming Relationship in a Culture of Curated Connection
Influencer culture has captured the hearts and minds of our youth—and if we are not watchful, it could capture their souls as well.
“ICE Raids” on Corpus Christi
The Feast of Corpus Christi, with its traditional public processions, is a call to all people to turn away from worldly cares and worship Christ as a mystical body.