The Catholic Church is undergoing a crisis of masculinity. Most parishes are dominated by women, and men are rarely at the forefront of spiritual leadership in a parish. What can be done to reinstate men as spiritual leaders?
A New Idea of Lent has invaded the entire Church. A gauzy altruism has taken the place of a rigorous program of penance and prayer.
Well-meaning Christians can sometimes struggle with exercising the prudence required of being a steward of wealth in making concrete determinations of where and to whom to give.
Irish Catholicism was never what Americans thought it was. Understanding what it was will explain why it is what it is today and why there is hope for its future.
A harsh rebuke, even an insult, might be necessary at times to save our fellow men from a path to damnation.
Hilaire Belloc helped lead a Catholic revival in England that was hugely influential in the growth of the Catholic presence in the wider culture.
We are all experts when it comes to temptation, but sadly we are all failures at it as well.
Ecclesiastical and political conditions make this Lenten season even more penitential, with no promise that anything shall be solved anytime soon.
A forgotten part of the Benedictine life is what many modern Catholics are missing.
As even birds desire to build their nests in the presence of God, how much more reason do we have to journey ever closer to God and His presence.
8 out of every 10 Catholics believe that other religions can lead to eternal life. How does this religious indifference impact the Catholic Church’s ability to live out her mission to convert the entire world to Catholicism?
The Church does not think “virtual” participation is “real participation” in the way the Church understands it.
Fathers, please preach boldly about sin and demand excellence in the spiritual life.
The crisis of masculinity is not that men have ceased to do strenuous things. Rather, the crisis is the fact that men have been told there is nothing worth doing strenuous things for.
Why are so many men and women who clearly only have a few years left on this earth so obsessed with exercising power until their final moments?
Why not use the time of Lent to help speed things along for those in purgatory who, while saved, are yet not fully ready to reach across the finish line where the final Epiphany awaits them?
If technological utopianism is a manifestation of self-worship, one can better appreciate the positive role played by poverty.
How can a Catholic be obedient when Church leaders promote same-sex blessings, shut down authentically Catholic liturgies, and continually undermine the Faith?
No amount of money or personal development in education or the business world is worth the pain that comes with the regret of closing yourself to new life.
I don’t think it is wrong to mourn for a beloved pet, as long as our affection for them helps us to live more simply and grow in love for God and neighbor.