Our Besetting Sins: Outrage and Adulation
Our obsession with personality masks the fact of our powerlessness.
A Phony Education
Wyoming Catholic College’s entirely cell-phone-free school year is directly ordered to freeing young people from a phony education.
Filial Appeal to All Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church
We ask all Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church to forbid the application of Fiducia Supplicans in their dioceses.
The Thought Police Are Here
Did you ever notice that the Global War on Terror no longer exists? Did you notice it has been replaced by a war on us?
Mary Wasn’t a Postpartum Pageant Queen
The traditional “churching” period of 40 days safeguards what is for many an intimate time of physical and emotional complexity, recovery, and growth.
Rome, We Have a Problem
The traditional Latin Mass held at the U.S. Capitol last week was a Jericho-Walls-crumbling moment.
A Plea for Parishes
The spiritual life of the ordinary Catholic in America is fed by the ordinary Catholic parish in America. What nourishes the life of that parish?
Are We Catholic Enough to Make Enemies?
St. John Bosco underwent assassination attempts because of his bold mission in Catholic education. Should Catholic schools expect to make similar enemies if they are truly teaching the Faith?
Fiducia Supplicans: A Crisis of Trust
The current reactions to Fiducia Supplicans constitute an outbreak of a crisis of trust toward the Holy See that has been lingering for years.
Courage: The Sage the Church Needs
Star ESPN sportscaster Sage Steele picked an unwinnable fight against a leviathan—and won. But she died, too. Her way is one the Church must follow.
The Jewish People’s Existence Attests To God’s Existence
The very fact that there are still Jews today serves as a motive of credibility manifesting the miraculous power of God in the world.
Mystical Passion vs. Love and Responsibility
Comparisons between Cardinal Fernandez’s salacious book and Pope John Paul II’s brilliant personalistic book fall short in every way.
Augustine’s Problem Is Our Problem
Christianity is not a philosophical abstraction, filled only with interesting ideas. It revolves around a Person who must be embraced.
A Neglected Novelist
It would be good for today’s Catholics to know more about Maurice Baring and to discover what they’ve been missing in their ignorance of his work.
From Judaism to Jesus
St. Ignatius of Antioch saw the Judaizers as a complete rejection of Jesus Christ.
Hellfire is Realer Than Real
To believe the sophistry that belief in a fiery Hell or a monstrous demon is irrational or unfitting of a reasonable Christian is the height of demonic pride.
Can a Catholic Support “Absolute Savagery”?
El Salvador’s president has used “absolute savagery” to successfully crush that country’s gangs. Is it worth the cost?
The Church Is Not Ruled by a Plebiscite
Sin does not grow sweet by majority practice; truth is not altered by a vote. The Church is not a political party.
How Colleges Have Made Themselves Useless
Cultural relativism and dissolved objective academic standards have made higher education’s decline inevitable.
Pope Francis Is the Pope He Was Waiting For
The Church under Pope Francis has become infiltrated by the strange ideological connotations found among communist-sympathizing Liberation Theologians.