Eucharistic Thanksgiving
The word “Eucharist” itself literally means “thanksgiving.” So why does thanksgiving seem ever more removed from our celebration of the Eucharist?
FACEing Injustice
Nine pro-lifers are each facing up to 11 years in prison under the FACE Act, and a fellow pro-lifer has turned and is providing testimony against them.
Don’t Just Opt Out—Fight Back
Is opting-out of LGBTQ+ curriculum at public schools enough? We need to directly challenge the presence of sexual perversion in our children’s school libraries and classrooms.
Driven to Martyrdom
It was not in defense of any sort of abstract principle that drove St. Ignatius of Antioch to such an extremity as to choose death, despising even the most cruel and pitiless of its torments.
Follow the Science, Not the Crowd
The hottest, new, jump-on-the-bandwagon idea in medicine, psychology, and education is “transitioning.” The theory behind the trans movement, however, is based on the work of a fraud.
They Made My Daughter Cry at World Youth Day
My daughter walked the Camino then attended World Youth Day. One experience was transformative, and the other was distressing.
In This Wintertime, Only The Catholic Way Will Save Us
Christ’s pilgrim Church has suddenly found itself in the late innings of, perhaps, transformation and schism, and few are around anymore to help save the day. But there is a Catholic Way forward.
War Has Two Sides
Russia and the West have two fundamentally different ways of looking at the world, which threatens to indefinitely prolong the war in Ukraine.
Anti-Feminism Can Be As Toxic As Feminism
The anti-feminist “tradwife” movement creates the same toxic divide between men and women as the feminist movement.
What Is a Bishop?
Too often our bishops today are legal, financial, sacramental, and practical administrators, but that is not their fundamental divine calling.
God’s Preemptive Strikes
Usually, the Church proclaims a dogma in reaction to a spreading heresy. But the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption were preemptively declared to prepare for future heresies.
What Does the Pope Have Against Opus Dei?
Is there some problem with Opus Dei that led Pope Francis to take so many steps to contradict what its founder thought a key to its continued usefulness to the Church?
Catholic College Still Requires Covid Vaccine
Although the national emergency declaration surrounding Covid-19 ended in May, this has not stopped the Jesuit-led Santa Clara University from requiring one bivalent dose for all incoming first year students.
Restoring a Diverse Catholic Unity
With the breakdown of Christendom and the loss of any sort of Christian identity, we are experiencing a period of cultural homogeneity determined by the reigning power.
World Profanation Day
Whoever was involved in the planning of WYD decided to imitate not the Magi who gave the Lord gold, frankincense, and myrrh, but the Corinthians who heedlessly carried on with their “agape,” not discerning the Body and Blood of the Lord.
The Loss of the Sacred
The grasping attempt to be “exciting” or “cool” seen at World Youth Day is but a symptom of disease of the “unsacred” nature of modern life.
The Church Must Demand More, Not Less, From Her Members
Parishes today cater to the modern family’s busy lifestyle in order to attract and keep members. But perhaps it’s that attitude that is driving people away.
Be Persecuted Like St. Lawrence
If being faithful in 2023 means that you are at odds with the world, then how should one proceed?
The Paradoxes of Auschwitz: Barbarity and Beatitude
“Cheery religion” can’t produce Edith Steins. Only the Old Faith can do that. The Old Faith, unafraid of the Cross.