A centerpiece of the much-derided opening ceremonies at the Paris Olympics has rippled the pond of an all-too-common Catholic complacence. Catholics are sadly used to being led like lambs to the slaughter on the altar […]
If you haven’t read King Solomon’s Mines—written by Henry Rider Haggard in 1885—you can make this a summer to remember by reading it for the first time. There is nothing quite like King Solomon’s Mines, and […]
This past Saturday, October 28, at New Hampshire’s historic Bedford Village Inn, two significant public figures were honored by Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts: Raymond Flynn, who was mayor of Boston from 1984 […]
With June comes the Rainbow. You can’t miss it. In fact, you may not miss it. Despite how anyone feels about it, despite your religious views, despite your conservative affiliations, despite the tradition of sexual […]
The Ascension of Jesus Christ, related in the Gospels of Mark and Luke and referred to throughout the New Testament, can be taken as something of an awkward anecdote in the Catholic canon. “And when […]
As the first Christian pilgrimage, the Epiphany sounds the call to renew the pilgrim heart in all Catholics. And for many, that will mean preparing for the epiphanies—the apocalypses, the revelations—that can come suddenly to […]
Damage is undoubtedly being done to our young through pernicious relativism, a politicized culture of side-taking, and a social climate that seemingly values physical health above spiritual and intellectual health. With all the divisions in […]
One of the problems plaguing the free world is that it has largely forgotten meaning and nature of freedom. When people are liberated enough to do more or less what they will, they tend to […]
October 31 does not receive much attention as a saint’s feast day. The loud and lugubrious observances of Halloween are difficult to compete with. Besides being a night of merry devilry and the eve of […]
As the nation continues to mourn the victims of the Uvalde massacre, and with old wounds aching over the sentencing of the Parkland shooter and the Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist trial, Catholics should be the […]
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