The summer is now fully upon us. It is the time when many are traveling on vacation and taking part in “leisure” activities. Yet, as many of us have discovered, it can be just as […]
Though June is the month dedicated by many Catholics to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, post-Christians and “liberal” Christians have decided to promote “Pride Month,” a time of celebration and promotion of a very strange […]
Lent is still going. Are you tired yet? Have you cheated on vows to give up this or that luxury? Or perhaps to perform a charitable action or pray more often? The boxer Mike Tyson […]
The second volume in the Catholic Women Writers series from Catholic University Press (full disclosure: I am on the series’ advisory board), Sheila Kaye-Smith’s 1923 novel The Fall of the House of Alard, may seem […]
Lent is almost here. The Church asks us to make this season one of particular effort to learn holiness’s two aspects: living fully the new life in Christ that began in our baptism and putting […]
Many people know of the successful 16th-century establishment of the Church in Japan by Catholic missionaries, including St. Francis Xavier, and its repression by imperial authorities and eventual complete suppression of the Church by the […]
This year marks the 750th anniversary of the death of Dominican Friar Thomas Aquinas. A Doctor of the Church ranking with the Fathers of the Church in honor and esteem, he died at age 49 […]
As much as we owe modern Christmas traditions to German and English traditions, there is one to whom we owe special thanks. While the modern tradition of a Christmas crèche with figurines seems to have […]
“Brace yourself!” reads one of those memes going around Catholic Twitter that shows the actor Sean Bean as Tolkien’s Boromir looking into the wind. It continues, “Bad Mary Magdalene takes are coming.” Though I prepared […]
If it is true, as writer Ross Douthat would have it, that we live in an age of decadence characterized by sterile remakes, reboots, and revivals of earlier artistic works, it is also true that […]
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