It Is Not Good for Some Couples to Be Alone
The upshot is that two boys or two girls should not be a couple at all because that exclusivity is not what friendship is for; it is, in fact, an obstacle to the full flourishing of friendship.
The End of Athletics
Athletics are moving further and further from their true end: virtue and quality time with our children.
My Advice? Step Down
The Church, which has always stood for sanity, may have to ask the Pope to step down in order to make things sane again.
Peter Sonski: the Other Catholic Candidate
The presidential candidate of the American Solidarity Party was born into a blue-collar Catholic family and went on to work in agriculture, insurance, journalism, and public relations.
Welcome to 2024: Enter More Crises
How does one begin when we know that crisis is on the horizon and there is seemingly nothing we can do about it?
Dostoevsky for Catholics (and Everyone Else), Part II
Dostoevsky wished to show how a Christian could overcome the powerful grip of modern ideas that denied the existence of God and spiritual realities more generally.
Rendezvous in Rome
What else is martyrdom but an outward expression of an inward reality implicit in the act of becoming a Christian?
The Poisonous Fruit of Amoris Laetitia
Fiducia Supplicans directly flows from principles and premises articulated in the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
The Church Will Always Triumph
Every time the Church has appeared close to destruction, it has prevailed.
From Satan to the Sanction: What’s Wrong with Fiducia Supplicans
The idea that blessings may be given without requiring anything from those upon whom the blessings are bestowed is the epitome of what Dietrich Bonhoeffer characterized as “cheap grace.”
Memory and Mass
Christianity did not entirely disavow the ancient idea of memory, but instead baptized it, most perfectly in the re-presentation of the sacrifice of Calvary.
A Papal Biopsy
Rather like a flame that burns brightest before it is extinguished, there has been a flurry of papal pronouncements, paving the way for what may be a course entrenched, if not irreversible, for his successor to face.
A King Among Fools and Flatterers
During the reign of the Danish king Canute, a devout Christian, the Faith in England flourished.
The Doctrine That Doesn’t Matter Remains Unchanged
A former Episcopalian priest reflects on the Vatican’s allowance of pastoral blessings for same-sex couples.
Defending the Christ Child
A new theology of sexual disorientation supersedes that of the natural order of things as the Christ child revealed.
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