Conundrums About Interpretation: What Is a Catholic to Do?
How do we properly interpret Church texts when there are so many competing interpretations of them within Catholicism today?
Sunday Mass with Young Children: Easier than D-Day
With a sound strategy, discipline, and a little luck, corralling your kids at Mass will win a decisive victory for the souls of your children, albeit after suffering severe casualties in the first waves.
Becoming a Real Man of God
True manhood is not found in comparison to my fellow man, it is found in being a child of God the Father.
On the Legitimacy of “Parish Tasting”
Is it okay to engage in “parish tasting?” Or should we stick with our local parish, no matter what?
Why So Serious?
What young people need most right now is not so much understanding, compassion, antidepressants, or therapy; they need a good belly laugh, preferably at their own expense.
Coming Down the Mountain
At an early age, I started hearing the word gay used to describe me. I wasn’t sure what it meant the first time I heard it around kindergarten or first grade, but I could tell it wasn’t good.
Coffee Hour With the Feds
What is a Catholic to do when our after-Mass coffee hours are infiltrated by federal agents?
434.25 Books Until I Die
Besides the final disposition of my soul, what is much on my mind is what I should be reading before I one day die.
The Starved Man Who Changed the World
Thirty-one years ago today, Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, one of the greatest forces for good for the humiliated, abandoned, and rejected in the history of the world, died like a poor man.
Overschooled and Undereducated
The purpose of schooling—which is not the same as education—is to encourage people to express confident platitudes, which they are pleased to call their opinions, about things they know nothing of.
The Splendor of Theology
When the truth and the life of the Catholic Thing coexist, the result will constitute nothing less than the splendor of theology itself.
Take Hold of the Hope
Sins and scandals are piling up. Everything seems to be falling apart. Where is our hope? And how do we fix this?
What Does It Mean to Be a “Welcoming” Church?
Contra Cardinal McElroy, genuine ecclesial inclusion goes through the path of acknowledging and renouncing one’s sinfulness.
A Case for Liturgical Crossover
This future in which traditional Catholics in their TLM-celebrating churches are separated from the rest of the faithful in diocesan parishes would be immensely harmful for all.
Imagining More Than a Career
I’d like my children to identify vocations (and perhaps professions) that will provide for their needs and give them some degree of personal fulfillment. But I would never tell them that their careers are the most important thing.
Is My Pet in Heaven?
We should avoid the temptation to provide a peremptory, dismissive—and often negative—answer to this frequently-asked question.
J.K. Rowling Demonstrates How to Handle the Woke Mob in Three Easy Steps
Without resorting to intimidation, compromise, excuses, or deception, Rowling confronts her opponents and puts them in their place.
The Joys of Not Being a Scripture Scholar
Our business is to journey on in unceasing search of God, the sheer outpouring of whose Word upon the Scriptures suffuses every page with the presence of Another.
If You Want a Happy Marriage, Take the Marital Debt Seriously
Few subjects raise such ire and disgust as the marital debt, but it is the teaching of the universal Church, and it does matter.