The Right Is Falling for the Lie That You Can Have It All at the Same Time
What does it say of our society, including conservatives, that we praise a woman skipping maternity leave to go back to work and partially abandon her infant child?
Take and Study
Far from being a Protestant activity, the study of the Bible is for Catholics as well. Fortunately there are tools to help us in this undertaking.
Restoring the Beauty of the Liturgy
The Church cannot continue to transform and humanize the world if she dispenses with the beauty of the liturgy.
The Ugly Truth About Gay Adoption
We’re seeing the emergence of homosexual couples acquiring children for the explicit purpose of pedophilia and then “sharing” such children within organized pockets.
The Cause and the Cure of Christmas Melancholy
Christmas is a haunting season, both in the sense that it is hauntingly beautiful and a time of great expectation for something that breaks reality in two.
Guadalupe at Lepanto
Our Lady of Guadalupe was there at Lepanto, hearkening to the Rosary recited by the soldiers processing round the decks, her quiet, pregnant power blazing at that apocalyptic battle with all the splendor of the star-crowned Woman of Revelation.
Christ, King of Families
The only way to evangelize the modern pagan world today will be through the family.
Are We Doomed to Forever Wars?
After Biden’s Regime Change in Syria, Trump Can Still Save the Middle East from “Forever Wars”
The Nativity Fast: The “Advent” of the East
For the Eastern faithful, this is a season of repentance. It’s a period of solemn reflection on the Incarnation—the second person of the Trinity.
Keeping a Long Christmas
“Holiday creep,” which begins earlier every year is not motivated solely by a desire for profits. The unconscious sense that things are dreadfully awry provokes an equally unconscious desire to escape into the land of nostalgia.
What Children Do
Christ’s admonition to become like little children is not an invitation for the adults in the room to set about infantilizing themselves, but to open their eyes as the children do.
Natives From Nowhere
The Church’s task is not to simply make herself manifest in human cultures. That would be to subordinate the Church to local ways. The task is far more challenging than that: to baptize the cultures.
Would St. Ambrose Get Fired Today?
What would Pope Francis have done with an Ambrose standing in the emperor’s path?
From Sinner to Saint
Like Mr. Chesterton, it would never have occurred to St. Augustine to assign blame for the world’s problems to anyone other than himself.
Notre-Dame Reopens: A Restoration of Tradition?
Donald Trump’s presence at the grand reopening of Notre-Dame signals a fresh hope for the Church in America and beyond.
Putting the Nail in the (Pope’s) Coffin
Once again, the Church—to keep up an appearance of humility—has done away with an ancient ritual.
The Unrecognizable Netflix Mary
The Mary presented in the Netflix film is not the Mary I have studied and written about over the years as a Marian theologian.
Mary’s Fiat: The Choice of True Freedom
Catholics for Choice is promoting the antithesis of Our Lady, the attitude of “I will not serve” the “non servium” of Satan.
Is RFK’s Nomination to HHS an Answer to Prayer?
I believe RFK Jr. is the ideal candidate to bring about much-needed reform within the American healthcare system.
