Yes, January 6th Was an Insurrection
The Left has relentlessly repeated that January 6, 2021 was an insurrection by the Right. An insurrection did begin that day, but it was the Left who engineered it.
MAGA: What’s Missing?
Expecting to make America great without strong families is like racing your 800-horsepower Ferrari 812 Superfast in reverse.
Cicero and Augustine
What will God, whose chief instrument is often irony, choose as His weapon to pull Augustine back from the brink? A book by Cicero.
Ugly Buildings, Beautiful Priests
While our local diocese is full of horrible-looking churches, it is also full of faithful priests.
Billionaires and Visas
Immigration reform is a complicated business, often related to the inherent contradictions in our economic system. There are many unemployed, but there are also surpluses of jobs that are not filled.
Chicago: Where Eucharistic Revival Goes to Die
Layer upon layer of Eucharistic practice was constructed over the millennia as protection against the slightest attenuation of Catholic doctrine regarding the Eucharist. For over sixty years, it has been breached.
How to Raise the Dead
When the spiritual bricks are firm in their foundation, and you are in a state of grace, could there be natural steps you can take to bring yourself back from the proverbial dead and reclaim your raison d’être?
Give Your Year to Our Lady
The Church specifically places the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God on the first day of the calendar year for a reason: our entire year should be given to the Blessed Mother.Â
Congress Coerces Conversion from Catholicism
This month Congress passed a resolution to change the religious perspective of the American people as well as practically attempting the forced conversion of Catholics to Zionism.
RIP Jimmy Carter: A Decent Democrat Dies
Jimmy Carter’s legacy is one of dignity and courtesy; a sign that there is something good in the heart of America. Though it is also telling that such a man of virtue made for a poor president.
Immigration and Culture
Vivek Ramaswamy is right that culture matters when it comes to immigration policies. But it matters far more than he thinks it does.
Infant Baptism: Do We Really Need It?
The grace of God does not bypass nature, any more than God’s divinity shows the least disdain for our humanity by becoming one of us. Â
A Stranger to Fame
Malachy G. Carroll might have had only one novel in him, and he might have only one novel to his largely unknown name, but it’s a minor classic that every Catholic should read.
Tradition and Treachery
Kneeling is good for the soul. It lifts you up by making you, in stature, no more than a child.
The Culture of Death Wins in Britain
Assisted suicide is legalized in Britain, and we can’t pretend there wouldn’t be support for it in other Western countries, including the United States.
What Might Have Been
We would faint in horror if we saw the enormity of what we avoided by this last election. The whole world might have been different.
Twelve Tales for Twelve Days
Christmas is a time for stories like no other time—a time for fantasies, memories, and mysteries. Here are twelve tales to tell over the twelve days of Christmas.
Conceived in Heaven, Born in Bethlehem, a Jubilee Year Awaits
If God’s Son was truly to be made a genuine human being, made of flesh and blood, then of course He must have a genuine human mother of flesh and blood too.
The Face-to-Face Nature of Christmas
Taking time to consider what it would have been like to be in Bethlehem on that holy night can radically influence our vision for the celebration of Christmas.
Exaggerations and Eucharistic Miracles
It would be tragic for Catholics to try to convince the world of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist with unsubstantiated scientific claims about bleeding hosts and divine DNA.