Who Are “The Poor” Anyway?
Well-meaning Christians can sometimes struggle with exercising the prudence required of being a steward of wealth in making concrete determinations of where and to whom to give.
Well-meaning Christians can sometimes struggle with exercising the prudence required of being a steward of wealth in making concrete determinations of where and to whom to give.
Irish Catholicism was never what Americans thought it was. Understanding what it was will explain why it is what it is today and why there is hope for its future.
A harsh rebuke, even an insult, might be necessary at times to save our fellow men from a path to damnation.
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Chris Cuomo was interesting in that it revealed the best of a broken Classical Liberal system.
As Walgreens and CVS begin dispensing mifepristone in many of their retail pharmacy locations, we must pause to consider its brutal history.
Hilaire Belloc helped lead a Catholic revival in England that was hugely influential in the growth of the Catholic presence in the wider culture.
Fiducia Supplicans causes the Coptic Orthodox to suspend their ecumenical dialogue with Rome, citing the declaration’s change to the Catholic Church’s position on homosexuality.
We are all experts when it comes to temptation, but sadly we are all failures at it as well.
Christian nationalists are simply trying to be a moral and religious people and ensure the success of the American experiment in so doing.
Ecclesiastical and political conditions make this Lenten season even more penitential, with no promise that anything shall be solved anytime soon.
For any who may need a catechism refresher, Biden’s statements on the House floor would qualify as grave external violations of the First and Fifth Commandments. They contain irreverence, scandal, and moral cooperation in murder.
A forgotten part of the Benedictine life is what many modern Catholics are missing.
E.F. Schumacher succeeded in popularizing Catholic social teaching in a way that far exceeded the limited success of Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton to do the same thing fifty years earlier.
As even birds desire to build their nests in the presence of God, how much more reason do we have to journey ever closer to God and His presence.
The Church does not think “virtual” participation is “real participation” in the way the Church understands it.
Jesus is fully God and fully man. He is like us in every way except sin. This includes having a sense of humor.
Fathers, please preach boldly about sin and demand excellence in the spiritual life.
The crisis of masculinity is not that men have ceased to do strenuous things. Rather, the crisis is the fact that men have been told there is nothing worth doing strenuous things for.
As much as Francis of Assisi loved nature, he understood that our first responsibility is to God and not to nature. It’s not clear if his namesake pope feels the same.
The aspiration of Fiducia Supplicans is for the truth about marriage to be united with mercy toward sinners. Was it successful in achieving that goal?