The Aching Heart of a Father
The masterpiece of love is Christ poured out fully upon the Cross. For Catholic fathers, the image carries particular force. Each is aware that his children awaken each morning into an expanding Babylon.
The Church’s Most Controversial Dogma That Even Good Catholics Question
There’s one teaching in particular—one consistently taught throughout Church history—that makes modern Catholics squirm.
What No Graduates Will Hear
Will we tell our young people what they need most to hear? If not, nothing else we say or do will stop our suicidal collapse.
When a Wedding Veil and Mourning Veil Merge
This vale of tears is full of sorrows but also joys. Sometimes they come together in ways only understood by the Almighty.
Of Performative Impiety and Nonperformative Piety
We know that we cannot judge the soul merely by exterior attributes; we know that it is wrong to make assumptions about a person’s interior disposition or depth of holiness based on casual clothing or external postures at Mass.
The World Zigs. We Zag.
In an age of 20-second videos and clickbait articles, we’ll march to the beat of a different drummer.
The Indomitable Maria von Trapp
What The Sound of Music lacks—whether due to cultural superficiality or merely time constraint—is the deep spirituality of Maria and the family’s lived Catholicism.
How to Protect Your Family in a Rigged Housing System (Hint: It’s Not by Renting Forever)
If we want to help the financial situation of Catholic families, we need to be precise about the real causes of the monetary crisis.
Give Thanks
Incapable as we are of paying our debts to God according to justice, we should at least try to supply for them by our gratitude.
Boomers, Doomers, and Zoomers
A younger generation of Catholics—one that doesn’t care about the battles of the past—is beginning to influence the direction of the Church.
Toward Traditional Catholic Spirituality
Oceans of ink are regularly spilled on the liturgy wars and apparitions, but the contemplative prayer central to traditional spirituality is overlooked.
This One Trick Will Transform Your Social Media Experience
Most of us underestimate the impact constant interaction with nasty accounts on social media can have on us—mentally, physically, emotionally, and especially spiritually.
Final Judgement
In the course of the final, public judgement, presided over by Christ the King, every one of our sins—in thought, word, and deed—will be revealed to every other person who has ever been created.
My Advice to Catholic Young Men
Young men: it’s time to step up. Don’t make excuses, don’t be a victim, and don’t let our feminized and destructive culture shape your life.
About That Adulterous Coldplay Couple…
In the most unlikely of circumstances, an act of public adultery plunged the whole world into a foretaste of the final judgement to come.