My friend, the journalist Christopher Altieri, says his least favorite form of writing is what he calls “ink on ink”. That is, a form of writing where one publication comments critically on something in a […]
Some things change, some don’t, and it can be hard to know what to do about it. Wise sayings point in different directions: “[I] beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to […]
In the new movie Wildcat, a feverish and immobile Mary Flannery O’Connor, played by Maya Hawke, asks her parish priest, played by Liam Neeson, whether he has ever read James Joyce. He admits he has not, […]
With the promulgation of the latest document from the DDF (Dignitas Infinita) much focus has been on the use of the word “Infinite” in the title as a qualifier for the ontological nature of human […]
Ethnicity, class, and sex are always with us. Members of different societies develop differences in habits, attitudes, and loyalties that grow into cultural and eventually ethnic distinctions. A complex society includes activities whose demands, qualifications, […]
When faced with the question of why there is so much suffering in the world, the default Christian answer is because of Adam’s sin. This belief is certainly not without warrant. Indeed, a number of […]
Cardinal Robert McElroy, in his recent remarks to the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, stated the following: It is essential to safeguard the deposit of faith. But how do the doctrinal tradition and history of […]
Traditional aspects of identity can be difficult to make sense of. Economic and technological developments put their functions in question. Who cares about inherited connections when contract, bureaucracy, and technical training seem more to the […]
On February 25, a twenty-five-year-old member of the United States Air Force named Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire in a gruesome public suicide spectacle outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. Proclaiming “Free Palestine” […]
“Melancholy is too painful, reaches too deeply into the roots of human experience to permit us to leave it to the psychiatrists.” — Romano Guardini, The Human Experience (Cluny Media, 2018) The word “melancholy”, in its […]
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