What’s Missing From the Synod
The Gospel has nothing to say about enabling, but it says much about sacrifice. The upcoming Synod needs to remember that.
When Catholic Universities Actively Assist in Sin
The University of San Diego, while claiming to be Catholic, provides resources to help student “transition,” as well as obtain abortions, sterilizations, and vasectomies.
Renaissance Jazz: Grooving in Style
Improvisation is one of Jazz’s distinctive features. One of the more recently recovered practices of Renaissance music, however, is also improvisation.
Ohio Amendment Seeks to Guarantee “Right” to Twin Evils of Abortion and Mutilation
Cultural acceptance of abortion naturally leads to transgenderism, which asserts that a person’s body can be disconnected from his or her identity.
Get Out of the Cave and Enter the Real World
If we could sum up the problem with the so-called modern age, it would be that we suffer from a break with reality.
NFP: Not For Planning
NFP is a valuable tool, especially for those seeking medical help, but not one for general use in orchestrating family size and structure.
We Become the Symbol
Wedding “unity” ceremonies, while well-intentioned, often replace sustenance with ritual and sentimentality.
Toward a Liberal Traditionalism
“Active participation” in the liturgy has caused endless controversy in the West. Perhaps it’s time to look to the Christian East for a way forward.
You Have a Fast Car
The fast car stands for breaking away, breaking free. We’ve been there, burdened down by responsibilities, struggling paycheck to paycheck, living in a poor part of town, looking for a better life—will things ever get better?
Men: Do You Want to Be Part of the Church Impotent or the Church Militant?
What we need is a men’s group for men who don’t like men’s groups.
That Dangerous Catholic Court
The six Catholics on the Supreme Court are causing crazed and anti-Catholic responses from the Chattering Classes.
The Moral Cowardice of Ignoring Trans Adults
If we accept that mutilation is unhealthy and harmful—shouldn’t we be willing to say so, even if it’s an adult receiving it?
The Christian Imperative for Community
In the midst of today’s darkness, Christians must find community, for without it, no Christian will be able to stand against the tide.
Brendan Had Three Babies
A boy with Down Syndrome and leukemia who died at the age of 16 has left an amazing legacy.
Religion: Stuck in the Throats of the Elite
Our nation’s elites demand religion be pushed to the corners of society, given little voice and fewer rights.
Seeing the Good Seeds Amidst the Weeds
With a cacophony of problems surrounding us, it’s difficult to hear the beautiful symphony the Holy Spirit is still conducting in the Church.
The Elephant in the Room: Abortion and Sex
Abortion seems necessary to many in our society because they are deeply committed to the view that sex is something that most human beings just can’t do without.
Awaiting the End
At the end of our lives the yearning for God innate in all of us is more and more revealed.
In the Age of AI, “Even the Very Elect Will Be Deceived”
AI may have reason and logic on its side. But it undermines not only theistic understandings of the soul and human spirit, of love and free will, but also the very essence of these transcendental pillars.
The Trans Controversy: American Bishops Face a Divided Nation and a Divided Church
Our bishops cannot ignore the percolating civil war brewing in America over trans ideology.