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?
The Protestant Work Ethic vs. the Catholic Siesta
A society based on the Protestant Work Ethic, a society with no siestas, is an anti-human society that treats human beings like machines.
Living in a Conviction-less Age
Christians’ lack of conviction was the catalyst for Christ being removed from the cultural throne of the West. Instead, we have accepted a bland, banal, suburban counterfeit that requires very little sacrifice or suffering.
The Post-Vatican II Pseudo-Spiritual Movement
With the demise of the traditional, God-centered spirituality that once thrived in the Church, new secular missionaries rushed in to introduce their man-centered sociopsychological therapies of one form or another.
Coming Home
For Catholics, it is not simply the church or churches of our childhood or youth that are home. It is every Catholic Church or Chapel from whence the sacraments are administered.
Questioning Narratives
More and more people argue that we should not accept dominant narratives at face value, especially when those who vigorously promote these narratives advance their own power base in doing so.
Cultural Fragmentation and the Need for a New Catholic Renaissance
Today, as we confront an era of ideological polarization, social fragmentation, and a pervasive sense of disorientation, the question arises: Is this another moment that calls for a Catholic renaissance?
Go Forth in Dance
The animosity toward dancing found in some traditionalist Catholic communities reveals an imagination that is deeply out of touch with our Christian culture.
A Little Hatred Might Yet Save Us
We are always asking the question, “What went wrong with the Church?” There is an answer too rarely considered: we abandoned hatred of the world.
The Dire Political and Spiritual Consequences of our Health Crisis
The modern American diet makes us listless and addicted, which is a recipe for disaster in both the political and spiritual realms.
The Battle of the Sexes Belongs in the Home
What is lost in this conversation about the roles of men and women in the family is the defining characteristic of a home as economic, the very meaning of “economics” being “household management.”
Getting Our Spiritual Foundations Right
Moral Spirituality replaced Mystical Spirituality in the Church, which led to disastrous consequences we still live with today.
The Gift of Motherhood (Guest: Mary Cuff)
Motherhood is the most important “job” in the world. But it comes with struggles and suffering. One mother decided to look to another type of mother for advice in this important task.
Saved Through Childbearing
Children have a way of stretching you beyond what you think you can bear. They are both blessing and cross; joy you never thought you could experience and pain you wish you never did.
Mansplaining Ephesians
Too often priests feel a need to tone down or even contradict the words of Sacred Scripture when they conflict with today’s zeitgeist.
Back to the Beginning: Finding Solutions to Today’s Problems in Genesis (Guest: Monica Miller)
The first three chapters of Genesis “set the table,” so to speak, for the rest of the Bible. But they also give us answers to the problems that plague us today, if only we understand what those chapters are saying.
Changing the World, One Outfit at a Time
From public streets, restaurants, and yes, our beloved Catholic parishes, nothing is sacred anymore. And this wholesale lack of respect starts—and in my opinion ends—with how we dress for our respective days.