A Lenten Grail Quest
Ecclesiastical and political conditions make this Lenten season even more penitential, with no promise that anything shall be solved anytime soon.
Don’t Just Pray and Work—Read
A forgotten part of the Benedictine life is what many modern Catholics are missing.
The Birds, the Temple, and the Pilgrims
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.
Why Religious Indifference is Deadly
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 Real Absence of Virtual Services
The Church does not think “virtual” participation is “real participation” in the way the Church understands it.
An Open Letter to Our Spiritual Fathers
Fathers, please preach boldly about sin and demand excellence in the spiritual life.
The Manosphere Doesn’t Solve the Masculinity Crisis
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.
The Reign of the Methuselahs
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?
The Gaze That Burns Twice
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?
Poverty: An Antidote To Technological Dystopia
If technological utopianism is a manifestation of self-worship, one can better appreciate the positive role played by poverty.
Catholic Obedience to Unfaithful Church Leaders (Guest: Peter Kwasniewski)
How can a Catholic be obedient when Church leaders promote same-sex blessings, shut down authentically Catholic liturgies, and continually undermine the Faith?
Contraception Regret at Red Lobster
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.
God and Man’s Best Friend
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.
A Mass Worth Sacrificing For
Our family endured many hardships to attend the traditional Latin Mass. Now it’s being taken away from us.
Catholicism Is About Swords
Our Faith is about swords, not hand-holding. Those swords are first directed at our sins, and then directed at the evils in the world and in our Church.
The Irreplaceable Role of Fathers
The modern world has declared that children not only do not need a father or to be fathered but that a woman or multiple women can be a substitute for a father.
Renouncing the “High-Value Man”
It is true that we desperately need good men. Masculinity is a good and necessary gift from God. But we need masculine men, not “high-value men.”
Spiritual Warfare: Bring in the Reserves
The Holy Spirit is awakening soldiers and has gone out in the back alleys and byways to enlist them.
Arm Wrestling the World for God
The solution to the Church’s distress lies right before us. Will spiritual leaders and laity choose to see it—or reject it because of the cost?
Against Adopting a Medieval-Peasant Mindset
I aver that the medieval peasant mindset, much like its Bronze Age predecessor, is one of the new crop of meme ideologies that have so aggressively multiplied in cyberspace over the past few years.