Dostoevsky for Catholics (and Everyone Else), Part I
Dostoevsky represents one powerful reply to many of the cataclysmic changes that have swept modern Western civilization since the eighteenth century.
What Is a Couple?
The only way to make Fiducia Supplicans orthodoxish is to pretend that two words that mean the same thing when used in the same context do not mean the same thing when used in the same context.
Feasts of the Saints: The Magical Multiplication of Food at Christmas
Did a Jesuit priest really recreate the Feeding of the Five Thousand in a Mexican rubbish dump on Christmas Day 1972? Or are such “Miracles of Abundance” better understood as providing the faithful with food for thought in purely symbolic terms?
Prudence and Symbolic Ambiguity
If you knew that the person was going to misunderstand your blessing, would it be right to let him or her be in vincible ignorance?
What Will You Get Jesus for His Birthday?
The thought that Christ wanted me at a time when I was so displeased with myself was sobering, relieving, and enough to inspire a few silent tears
Too Many Masses Around Christmastime?
The fact that Catholics are questioning attending Mass two days in a row is a sign of how far we’ve fallen.
The Path to Dystopia is Paved with Ideology
Treating “gender distress” as something caused by a societal injustice is an attempt to normalize a condition and behaviors that have been considered unhealthy for millennia.
Breaking Down Fiducia Supplicans
The Vatican’s approval of blessings for same-sex couples and couples in “irregular situations” reflects a divorce between morality & pastoral practice, liturgy & life, and orthodoxy & orthopraxy.
C.S. Lewis & Roy Campbell: The Best of Friends & Enemies
A look at the controversial and complex relationship between C.S. Lewis and Roy Campbell.
Choosing Between New and Old
The Latin Mass is an adventure. That’s not what makes it sacred, but it does make it compelling. It’s a secret language waiting to be unlocked.
The New Paganism
The mutability of human nature broadly, and of gender in particular, is the Trojan Horse by which paganism has achieved its modern renaissance.
Is Notre Dame Law School Still a Place for Faithful Catholics?
Notre Dame has a less-than-stellar reputation among faithful American Catholics, which calls into question whether aspiring Catholic lawyers should apply there.
Segue to Sanctity
If the Office of Unity, symbolized by a sitting bishop, is necessary to the maintenance of faith, then holiness of life is the reason for it.
The Never Trump Call for Violence
Opponents of Donald Trump are using increasingly dangerous rhetoric in their campaign to keep the former President out of the oval office.
The Curious Case of the Purloined Precept
Why did the sixth precept—”To observe the laws of the Church concerning marriage”—disappear from Catholic catechisms?
From Marital Debt to Marital Credit
While the language of “marital debt” can turn the self-giving human relationship of marriage into a legalistic project of obedience, what is the proper approach to the marital relationship?
We Have Seen This Show Before
Contrary to some modern protests, there exists a norm or standard of right reason which applies to everyone in every place and time.
Forgive Them, Father
The hardest people to forgive are those men called to be our spiritual fathers and shepherds who are blatantly and publicly inflicting wounds on the mystical body of the Church.
A Convert Among Communists and Carmelites
Roy Campbell is mostly unknown today, but he once enjoyed fame and endured infamy—attacked bitterly by C.S. Lewis and defended vociferously by J.R.R. Tolkien.
What Attracts Homosexuals to the Priesthood?
Why would a young homosexual man today, in a time of general acceptance of homosexuals in all walks of life, choose the priesthood?