Pay No Attention to the Conclave
We are not called to be Church watchers. We are not called to fuss at the rectory, the chancery, or the Vatican. Our proper “stance” is to face the world with the Church at our back.
The Death of a Father
I long for a father who will give me some encouragement in the thankless and often unpleasant task of building up something like a human culture, one whose springs well up from the Faith.
May Pope Francis Rest in Peace. And May Peace Return to Mother Church.
Good Catholics were often confused during the Francis pontificate.
The Easter Mystery: A Call to Love
To enter into the eternal Easter, we must first pass through the transformative flames of the Sacred Heart.
He is Risen!
Every year Easter marks the time of renewal in our spiritual life, in our search for God.
Why Catholicism and Not Eastern Orthodoxy?
Both Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy claim to be the “true Church” and both have apostolic roots. So why choose Catholicism over Eastern Orthodoxy?
The Selective Morality of the Christian Social Justice Left and Right
The bleeding-heart Christian social justice Left and the bold, assertive Christian Right are willing to vigorously defend the vulnerable only when it doesn’t threaten their first-world privileges.
Chasing the Apocalypse
Obsessing over the imminent End of the world is a spiritual trap, one that can lead us away from the very faith we’re trying to defend.
Tradition or Annihilation
If we want to avoid the Church’s effective annihilation, we must return to Tradition, in everything from liturgy to catechesis to public morals and even modesty in dress.
In Defense of Fr. Ripperger
Fr. Chad Ripperger was recently accused of making statements that are “contrary to Catholic Tradition, doctrine, and theology.” We need to set the record straight.
Such a Great Witness
Catholics are opposed to sex, right? Yet it’s our godless world that empties sex of its inherent thrill and danger.
Who Put the Ashes in Ash Wednesday?
The ashes of Ash Wednesday come to us from no less a personage than Pope St. Gregory the Great.
A Modest Proposal for Lent
What exactly is the price that we are expected to pay in order to follow Christ? Love one another or die!
Catholics Are Rapidly Losing Ground
A new survey shows that for every 100 new Catholics, more than 800 people leave the Church. As bad as that is, the news is actually worse when we look more closely at the numbers. Radical changes are needed.
Keep Ringin’ Those Bells!
Are ringing bells during Mass a vestige of the bad old pre-1969 Mass, where everything was hidden from the People of God in a dead language and the priest had to get the congregation’s attention?
Liturgy, Redemption, and Contemplation
All too many modern Catholics seem to think that the only hope for renewal in the modern Church is to find it in the liturgy alone, and they seem to be blind to the importance of deep personal prayer.
The “Higher Things” Budget
Let us consider the “higher things” together. Some say they are useless extravagances. But I say (with all sane men before me) that they are teachers of mysteries, to be revered.
Outsourcing Our Duty to the Poor
Many progressive Catholics argue that opposition to government aid programs violates our obligation to help the poor. Are they right? And what exactly is our duty to the poor?
The Struggles of a Scrupulous Trad
What should we do in a modern Church full of questionable shepherds? Obviously, the solution isn’t to double down and justify our compulsive behavior. “I can’t trust anyone” is never supernaturally true.
Feminism and the Destruction of Hierarchy
Western patriarchy had nothing to do with blanket, across-the-board control of women by men. Patriarchal authority of husbands over wives was one form of hierarchical authority among others, some of which gave women authority over men.