Problems with the New Evangelization (Guest: Msgr. Charles Pope)
In an age where lots of Catholics talk about the New Evangelization while millions leave the Church, how should we share the Catholic Faith with others?
The #1 Vocation Killer
The reason we still have a vocations crisis isn’t poor catechesis or smaller families. It’s something more insidious.
Heaven Is Only in Heaven
Secularism tries to turn this world into a atheistic heaven. Our only defense against this lie is the Ascended Christ.
O Happy Fault, O Happy Departure
The Ascension is sometimes just an Easter afterthought. But the full extent of our salvation isn’t revealed until this feast, when the Paschal Mystery is complete.
The Guerrilla Warfare of Journaling
It takes a conscious effort to keep yourself from falling into the fifth-generation war machine that is meant to influence thoughts and behavior. That effort is daily journaling.
How to Truly “Be Different”
What is now truly different is the old way of doing things; rebellion has become a rather drab and uniform affair of everyone being “different” in essentially the same rainbow way.
An Unexamined Death is not Worth Dying
We must be determined to identify those few necessary things we must affirm in order to arrive safely on the other side.
The Rise of Catholic Homesteading (Guest: Jason Craig)
Why are so many Catholic families looking into farm life? Why is homesteading becoming a popular alternative to the suburban and city life?
Big Families, Wide Sidewalks, and Frogs
Our nation is broken to a certain extent because of the dearth of babies. The nation could heal with more of them.
Thank You, Jesus
Gratitude is an exercise of the heart not the mind, and as such it gives the mind the space it needs to rest.
Taylor Swift Does Not Belong in Your Christian Era
Women deserve better stories than Taylor Swift’s songs. Our daughters deserve better role models than the singer. It’s time to grow up.
Light a Siena Fire
In our world today, it is boldness among the faithful which is the ingredient that we lack the most.
On Beginnings and Endings
What Eliot is trying to tell us is that the end will always be found in the beginning, and that when we finally do come to the end, it will have been granted to us so that once more we may return to the beginning.
The Dangers of Liberal Catholicism (Guest: Trent Horn)
For decades “liberal” or “progressive” Catholicism has been dominant in the Catholic Church in America, deeply influencing parishes and parishioners. What are the dangers of this brand of Catholicism, and what can we do to combat it?
A Boots and Tie Education
Rather than primarily utilitarian, the college window should be about something much bigger than it actually is at most colleges.
The Trauma of the Madonna della Bocciata
The painting “Madonna della Bocciata” at the Vatican is badly damaged, but we need to see a message in her wound.
Our Duty to Care for Our Elderly
Caring for the elderly is a challenge, but it can also be an opportunity for sainthood.
Sanctifying Time
Recovering the Church’s tradition of regular and recurring religious practices throughout the day and in the course of the week, month, and year is not just folklore. It responds to a basic human need.
Living in the Modern Dark Ages
Those who are chiefly responsible for the gathering Dark Age work hard to try and keep the rest of us from seeing it.
My Visit with Sister Wilhelmina
I recently returned from a trip to Gower, Missouri to venerate Sister Wilhelmina, founder of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, and an incorrupt.