This Advent, Don’t Forget That Satan Hates You
The Incarnation serves as the supreme reason as to why Satan harbors such a tremendous hatred for us and desires and works tirelessly to drag us to the depths of Hell.
If G.K. Chesterton Were a Doctor Today
G.K. Chesterton would declare that a commonsense Catholic medical response needs to put human dignity at the center of its work.
Cardinal Zen: Reorient Your Lives This Advent!
One of the most prophetic voices in the Church today urges us to deep conversion this Advent.
Appealing But Deadly
Conservatives accepting sexual revolutionaries into their ranks are inviting their own movement’s demise.
Which Way, Modern Woman: Nun or Porn Star?
Our modern age promotes participation in the porn industry as “empowering,” but it is in sacrifice and dying to self that we truly find happiness.
St. Andrew: Clarity Amid Confusion
St. Andrew’s prayer might be just what his brother’s successor needs right now.
Michael Voris and the Perils of Celebrity
Michael Voris helped me on my path toward joining the Catholic Church. I can’t help but find his recent resignation and his own public scandal to be somewhat painful.
Is Hallow Shallow?
Hallow, the popular Catholic prayer app, recently ran into controversy when it hired rabidly pro-abortion actor Liam Neeson. Yet this was just a symptom of its problematic monetization and celebritization of prayer.
Life Is Not a Problem to Be Solved
Life is a mystery to be lived and, not infrequently, endured, which is what makes it so profound and persisting a drama.
The Pull of Scrupulosity
Scrupulosity is common among young people today due to a disconnect between the ideal of sanctity and the reality of the life of virtue.
Self-Hatred as a Barrier to One’s Calling
The temptation to define ourselves by our sins, and especially by our worst sins, is just that—a temptation.
The Everlasting Revival
Movements of large-scale change and conversion cannot be manufactured; they must be caught and spread. Programs do not change people. People change other people.
A Kneeling Theology
When theologians withhold their assent from all that the Church has consistently taught from the very beginning until now, they pretty much leave everything in ruins.
Does Pope Francis Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt?
Many Catholics argue that we must always give the pope the “benefit of the doubt.” But is this true? Do we always have to assume the best of intentions in the pope’s words and actions?
Still Concerned About the Eucharistic Revival: A Response to Tim Glemkowski
Dear Tim, Thanks so much for your response to my recent essay regarding Eucharistic Revival and the Eucharistic Congress. You were so openhanded in offering me the benefit of your erudition and experience that I’m moved to reciprocate. I’ve been a communicator as a teacher, preacher, author, and broadcaster for 33 years, and my experience will … Read more
Spiritual Abuse in the Heart of the Church
In a new book, the superior general of the Carthusians faces up to abuses in the religious life and gives insights that have wide application to the entire abuse crisis.
Catholic Life in Tyler, Texas Under Bishop Strickland (Guest: Deacon Keith Fournier)
All eyes in the Catholic world have recently been on Tyler, Texas. Today we’ll talk to a deacon of that diocese about what it was like to live as a Catholic in the Diocese of Tyler under Bishop Strickland.
The Most Insane Reaction to Strickland’s Ousting
Enemies of Bishop Strickland came out in force in the last week, trying to one-up each other in their ludicrous accusations against the good bishop.
Who Is to Blame When Catholics Leave the Church?
Some Catholics seem to think that if we all pretend, really really hard, that everything is perfect in the Church, then it will never occur to anyone to leave.
O Death, Where Is Thy…Tickle?
For all of its fearfulness, the Church never cheated her children of death’s sublime, albeit mournful, reality.