Love’s Conquest of the Cosmos
What moves the earth and the planets and all the stars above? The answer is Love.
Synodality: Institutionalized Self-Interest and Selfishness
A new form of religion has come into being— masquerading as Catholicism—in which selfishness has been institutionalized. This new religion has called itself Synodality.
Will Elon Musk Usher in a Utopia or a Dystopia?
The recent technical advances made by Elon Musk’s companies— from servant robots to catching rockets out of the sky—are amazing feats of engineering. But will they make the world a better or worse place to live? Should Catholics embrace his vision for the future?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: The Church’s Conscience
Much of that to which Bishop Schneider feels compelled to respond (and that to which the Church ought to) is a “dis-ease” dividing the world in its struggle with itself and with God.
Beyond the Field Hospital
The analogy of the Church as a “field hospital” can easily lead pastors to an abdication of their duties.
God’s Wake-up Call
The intensification of dramatic world events is a call from God for an intensification of our prayer life.
Pray. Vote. Pray. Work. Pray More.
One can see more clearly that we’re not going to vote for a saint but for someone—and realistically an entire administration—that might do us less harm than another. Don’t expect too much more.
The Realness of the Rosary
The Mysteries of the Rosary upon which we meditate work to re-tether us to a reality that we are so often detached from in our modernist, post-Christian, hyper-worldly society.
Love for St. Peter and His Successor
My love for Peter endures because he is like me, fragile flesh and blood, but also unlike me, in that he became holy, despite his sin. I must love the successor of Peter, even when that successor causes me to suffer.
We Are All Exiles Now
If crisis bespeaks judgment, then we are no less under the judgment of God than our forerunners the Jews, who first breached the covenant with God.
American Cristeros
It’s high time we come to know the Mexican Martyrs, as we face the anti-Catholic beast prowling about in America.
The Nine Levels of Prayer
Catholicism has developed the best “school of prayer” available, but it’s mostly forgotten today.
Chesterton the Brilliant
Some intellectuals look down their nose at G.K. Chesterton, but he was a thinker of the first order.
Hunting as Conservation
Hunting encourages and forms a crucial part of a way of life that is inimical to the overreaching, socialist, digital dictatorships most modern governments seem to be becoming.
The Mystery of the Stigmata (Guest: Paul Kengor)
The Stigmata holds a special place in the history of Catholic mysticism, as well as in the Catholic imagination. What is this gift, and why do certain people receive it?
The Beginning of the End of Recreational Catholicism
While Recreational Catholicism—the tangled knot of the therapeutic, political, theatrical, and ego-massaging trend besetting the Church—has had its day, we are now on the cusp of a resurrection.
An Open Letter to Conservative Dads
If your adult child is telling you that she (because it’s most likely a daughter) is going to be voting for Kamala Harris and the Democrats this November, you need to cut off that child financially.
You Are Going to Die!
Death is the one thing we absolutely cannot escape and also the one thing that should shape how we live. Yet we ignore death all the time. Why keeping death in our minds will help us live better lives.
Has Critical Theory Captured the Right?
Conspiracy theories have gained widespread credibility on the Right. Have conservatives succumbed to the siren song of critical theory?
