Notre Dame: Is It Still Catholic?
A professor at Notre Dame recently has offered and promoted abortion access to Notre Dame students, despite university policy and Indiana law. Will the university do anything about it?
Asking the Wrong Questions About Homosexuality
The problem with asking “Why does God make people gay?” is that it contains a false premise which, necessarily, leads to a false conclusion.
When Love Isn’t Love
We sometimes do not love those people or those things we think we love. We may also love and not be aware of it. But the human heart, without grace, hardly beats at all. It is a tangle of vipers, and when it beats, it squeezes out its poison.
A Catholic School Moment?
Catholic schools in the United States are having a moment. For decades, enrollment in Catholic schools was in decline. However, enrollment is now up and most of the increase in enrollment can be explained by the utter failure of public-school systems.
There and Back Again: A Rings of Power Postmortem
Season One of The Rings of Power has ended, and none too soon. It is a mess that bears only a passing resemblance to Tolkien’s world of engaging characters, strong moral code, and story realism.
The Heresy of Racial Theology
Race-based theology represents a direct attack on the very heart of Christianity, and certainly Catholicism.
Progressive Wokeness Is at the Heart of Today’s Problems
Tulsi Gabbard recently left the Democratic Party, claiming that the Democrats are “now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.”
Three Months of Dangerous Holidays
Columbus Day started an almost three-month cultural flagellation feast for liberals which continues through Thanksgiving, reaches a peak at Christmas, and culminates in January 6th.
The Hobbit in a Nutshell
At its deepest level, The Hobbit can be seen as a parabolic commentary on the words from St. Matthew’s Gospel that where our treasure is, there our heart will be also.
Synodality for Steubenville…Why not?
When it comes to the potential shutdown of the Diocese of Steubenville, the laity were ignored – so much for the virtues of synodality.
The Sedevacantist Wager
While I see the potential in the arguments of some sedevacantists, I cannot follow them because I believe that it is not fitting for there to be no pope.
Mama Told Us So
Catholics know wicked and perverted men in the hierarchy protect and promote one another, and we know they do not care what we think or how we feel. But we pray that some at least will begin to fight against the evil in their midst.
Picking Up the Pieces: How the New Right Is Transforming Conservative Politics
The New Right conservatives are angry—angry that the Left is winning the culture war, angry that families are suffering, and, most of all, angry that the Old Right let it happen.
The Loss of the Heart of a Human Community
Every closing of a church is a knife to the heart of a real human community. In Canada the people feel it more keenly perhaps than in America. You did more than meet your neighbors at Mass; you met fellow travelers on the way to the four last things.
Destroying Culture Through Amnesia
The introduction of divisive critical race theory, historical revisionism, and the permeation of woke ideology into every crevice of school curriculums has led to a silencing of our culture’s stories.
America’s Grave Sensus Fidei-less Opinions
One thing is now clear: numberless faithful Catholics believe what Cardinal Müller does: the Synod on Synodality has been commandeered to subvert and distort the moral doctrine of the Church.
We Need Good Government, Not Small Government
To understand the tyranny that people fear from big government, we have to first identify which uses of government authority can be called evil.
Catholic and Going to College? Get a Spouse in Addition to a Degree
Marrying a college sweetheart does not inoculate you against serious disorders, heartaches, and, of course, the evil of divorce. But it can contribute positively to a life well-lived in many ways.
Jeffrey Dahmer: The Penitent Criminal
Jeffrey Dahmer’s conversion to Christianity near the end of his life raises many questions about redemption, salvation, and what it means to be a sinner.
Modernism and “The Miracle of the Papacy”
I knew something about the “bad popes” of the past—and the technical limits of papal infallibility. But I still believed in some strange apotheosis whereby the contemporary popes could do no wrong.