Some Funereal Thoughts on Liturgy
We have lost in the new liturgy our connection to our past. Many of us need the venerable liturgies, the timeless chants, the changeless gestures, to help us feel the eternal presence of Christ.
I’m Not Attending a Sinful Wedding. What about the Reception?
Is it moral to attend the reception following a sinful wedding? Or does that also support the sin being celebrated?
The Joy of Benign Misanthropy
Now “community” is often treated as virtually essential by Catholics from the most traditionalist to the most modern. But is this hyper-focus on community necessary?
Why Do I Teach?
Teachers are called to urging their students to climb onto those ancestral shoulders and see the distant shore where truth and beauty beckon, the very things that so animated the lives of those who came before us.
Catholic School Rescued at Historic Pennsylvania Parish
Due to the hard work and prayers of a few committed people, a Catholic school not only survived, but it was transformed.
Follow the Science!
Today, the command to “follow the science” is the perfect tool to speed the centralization of governmental power all in the name of combatting COVID-19.
Letter to My Goddaughter Marrying Outside of the Church
What do you say to a loved one who is getting married outside the Church? Dr. Janet Smith shares a letter she sent to a loved one in this situation.
Unchaining Our Health
As Catholics are learning more and more about the role of fetal tissue research in modern medicine, they are asking how they can break free from its chains.
The Christian Response in the Age of an Epidemic
The Church’s response to COVID is driven by “concern for the safety of our members and the vulnerable”—a rationale that would have struck early Christians as strange.
Mourning the Loss
Modernism, as an ideological stance, is essentially iconoclastic. It exists principally by standing in judgment against what has existed, even when what has existed is profoundly and naturally human.
Women Deserve Men Who Oppose Abortion
Legalized abortion is, in part, due to the catastrophic moral and spiritual failure of men—especially Christian men—who have stood on the sidelines for so long.
Skinheads, Nose Rings, and Tattoos, Oh My!
It is easy to jump to rash judgements about people, but we should see the image of God in each person.
Stop Pharming Out Your Health
We have made an idol of medicine, and we have given the care of our bodies to thieves and murderers who slaughter children for profit.
True Femininity: An Interview with Alice von Hildebrand
One of the last interviews given by Alice von Hildebrand, who passed away on January 14, 2022.
Fighting the Demon of Pornography
Having written a book on the topic of masculinity, I have received my fair share of questions and comments from readers about how to deal with the scourge of internet pornography. Before I continue, I will herein refer to pornography as “evil images” because I believe that is what they are and what they should … Read more
The Anti-Sacramental Metaverse
In our brave new world where private property, mobility, privacy, free speech, and freedom of conscience are luxuries for the technocratic elites alone, the metaverse promises to keep the masses content.
The Beauty of Austerity
Faithfulness to the austere beauty of Teresa’s rule was the cause for canonization for a little-known modern saint, Mother Maravillas de Jesus (1891-1974).
An Anglican Use Success Story
Catholics who yearn to attend a reverent Mass may find that the Ordinariate Form (Anglican Use) may just be the home they are looking for.
COVID Vaccines and the Sense of the Faithful
As the Church seeks to understand the morality of abortion-tainted vaccines, the sensus fidelium is critically important. We have an urgent responsibility to contribute to the Church’s elucidation of this teaching.
Compassion for All, Even the Unvaccinated
If you have compassion for the unvaccinated being discriminated against, how can you support a business that participates in this kind of discrimination?