Remembering the Slave of the Slaves
St. Peter Claver’s ministry to black slaves is plainly remarkable and perhaps unparalleled among anyone in the history of the Catholic Church and perhaps Christianity as a whole.
Trudeau’s Empty Graves
If anyone has been paying attention to how Marxists and liberals work, they would not be surprised to find the Canadian “mass graves” controversy was a complete hoax.
A Papal Silence Would Be Welcome at Times
A religious leader should be very careful about spreading his thinking too thin; a pope is not an omniscient source of opinions about everything.
The Pseudo-Primitive, Pseudo-Childlike Art of Fr. Rupnik
Everywhere you turn in the Catholic Church of the last fifty years, you find the spirit of Rupnik. All of the pseudo-primitive pseudo-childlike church art since my boyhood has been of a piece.
A Collision of Civilizations
Russians consider a loss in Ukraine as tantamount to Russia’s losing its historical identity—not merely as a country but as a civilization, a society distinct from the West.
The Slow Resurrection of God’s Most Wounded Ones
A shelter founded by a priest for teenage girls who have escaped from human trafficking is directly engaged in the battle for souls.
Robert E. Lee and the Nine Worthies
Is it a good thing for a Catholic publication to promote the life of Robert E. Lee as an example to be imitated?
Jihad in Fargo?
A recent attack in Fargo, North Dakota at first seemed to be another senseless act of violence. But evidence is emerging that it might have been a jihad attack.
What If We’re the Meanies Here?
David Brooks never bothers to consider who makes the country mean. Rather, he continues to flatter himself and his audience, cynically affirming a toxic outlook that divides and demoralizes a majority of the population.
The First Thing About Work Is Getting Out of Bed
It is good for people to work together. It is good for people to get out of their beds, bedrooms, and houses to associate with different people for part of the day in order to do something, maybe even something creative.
The Digitalization of the Faithful
How does it impact the faithful when one can become engrossed in a virtual world in which most of the rules of reality no longer apply, losing touch with the real world, and at times wondering which is really the real world?
Is AI “Sacred” Art Actually Sacrilegious?
Sacred art is a uniquely human participation in the divine creative work, made possible by the fact that human beings are made in the image and likeness of God.
On the Trail of Ignatius
The life of St. Ignatius of Antioch was connected to other great figures in the early Church, not least being St. John the Evangelist.
The Death of a Boy and the Founding of Families
Nine-year-old Michael Harrill inspired everyone who saw him bravely fight a year-long battle against a pediatric cancer called neuroblastoma.
A Tale of Two Styles: Why Modesty Matters
Modesty isn’t just about clothes, it’s about the state of our hearts, but what we wear says something about us and how we view the world.
Progress!
In this land we live in now, people are so dis-integrated that they have often no love for the bodies God gave them but, instead, must have them mutilated, just as their families so often have been.
Alarms About the St. Michael Prayer
The idea that it is wrong to pray the St. Michael Prayer after Mass is only something that could be believed by a rubricist out of touch with reality.
Performative Catholicism
Once society allows individuals to claim an identity grounded exclusively in emotion or desire, anyone can claim to be a practicing Catholic no matter their beliefs or actions.
The Ongoing Debate Over Dignitatis Humanae
The ambiguity of Dignitatis Humanae could lead to an end of the debate surrounding it.
