Advice to a New Convert: Let It All Die
In order to “put on the new man,” as a mark of one’s conversion, we must first “put off the old man.”
And in This Corner, No One
If you hate or despise American ways, if when you think of American history you think first and second and third of its evils, you cannot have any strong interest in the assimilation of immigrants to those ways.
How to Protest Without Fear of Getting Shot
Laws govern our right to assemble and protest peacefully, and obeying them, or not, is what separates legitimate protest from riot.
Recontextualizing Social Teaching
Despite sounding “left-leaning” to some conservative Catholics, the recent statements from Pope Leo XIV on economics, poverty, and social issues align with longstanding Catholic social teaching.
Is the Church Roman?
I can understand why one might want to associate the Church with the glories of the Roman Empire, but such associations, though they may be historically important, are not essential for her.
The Problem of Destination Churches
As a practicing Catholic who church hopped for so many years only to make his peace with the church up the street, I would suggest a third option, which lies somewhere in the middle.
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part V
There is no folly quite like a man who asserts his independence while standing in a world he neither created nor comprehends, and whose inevitable departure is more mysterious than his humble arrival.
The SSPX, the Truth, and Charity
What one thinks about the SSPX, in a sense, is in the eye of the beholder.
The Bell of San Remo
Catholics have lost the “public square” over the past 60 years, but Bishop Antonio Suetta in Italy is sounding a wake-up call.
An Open Letter to US Dioceses
From misuse to abuse, the time of blind giving to a bishop’s Annual Appeal is over.
Students Are Reading Less. This is Why.
Educators need to entice reading, and kicking the classics to the curb won’t help.
The War on Truth, in the Name of Empathy
How Hillary Clinton trades the innocent for the guilty and calls it Christianity.
Without a Safety Net: Free Climbing and Mortal Sin
A lesson from Alex Honnold and the spiritual life.
On Small Laws
“When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom, you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” And so we have the continuing melodrama in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Telling Our Story
Every Christian, great and small, across two millennia, in every tribe and nation, has heard the warn-out taunt about believing in fairy tales.
Gen Z Rebels Against “Gay Acceptance”
Gen Z’s refusal to embrace an unqualified “support for homosexuality” challenges the lie of “live and let live.”
The Movement to Topple Obergefell Is No Longer Fringe
Ten years after the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, advocates are rightly worried that the case isn’t closed.
Make America Beautiful Again
America can only be made great again if it first seeks to make its citizens virtuous again.
Meet the New Porn: Even Worse than the Old Porn
Pornography soaks the minds of those who consume it in unrealities that, in turn, ruin lives in reality. AI, in all its uses, may turn out to be even worse.
The Ghost of Paul Weyrich in the Halls of Heritage
Staff departures at the Heritage Foundation are actually rooted in a deeper, more ideological shift than many assume.
