The Need for Parish Intellectual Life
The intellectual life, if shaped by the faith, will be the food of mental prayer.
Beyond Apocalypse: Believing in Cultural Restoration
It is easy to diagnose our problems, especially when faced with a culture as unhealthy as ours. It is much harder to prescribe a cure. But that’s our most important work.
Take Courage and Show Thyself a Man
We live in a fraught time, full of discord and uncertainty—precisely the time God created you for.
Parish Priests Are the Cure to the Crisis
If parishes are giving better catechesis and liturgy, emphasizing Confession, and building devotion to the Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin Mary, shouldn’t they be seeing more fruit?
The Toothpaste isn’t Going Back in the Tube: Tradition and the War of Attrition
Traditional Catholicism is not going anywhere, and the more pressure you apply, the more it shines, like a diamond, or better yet, like a sword beaten between hammer and anvil.
Whither the Fall?
The wisdom that opposes and conquers the world, turns to God and says, “take all my liberty, memory, understanding, and entire will…leaving only Thy love and grace.”
The Age of Fragility: Reclaiming Resilience in a Culture of Victimhood
The distorted image of God that many Christians have come to hold amounts to nothing more than a fuzzy “safe-space.”
In Appreciation of Bishop Barron
I’ve been critical of Bishop Barron in the past, but he’s still one of our best bishops today.
Jesus Called People Morons: The Sacred Insult That Could Save a Civilization
Christ looks the most religious men of His day in the eye and calls them morons. He does this not to demean but to awaken; not to shame but to judge rightly—and to invite us to do the same.
No Way Home
To be a “Cultural Catholic,” is to empty the Gospel of its transforming power; it is living a lukewarm life.
Should Vance Have Kissed the Ring?
When a Catholic Vice President meets the pope, which protocols should take precedence: the Catholic or the American?
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.