Why be a consecrated layman, and not a priest? I am, after all, ‘available’ for the priesthood. I’m not married. Why not go ‘all the way,’ and seek ordination? As a layman in the life […]
When we have political disputes in the country, one way of trying to help clarify matters would be to remind the interlocutors of the relevant moral principles that should govern their disagreement. Murdering innocent people […]
It is March. St. Patrick’s Day season is upon us. Americans of all and no ethnic traditions will be subject to a full-scale assault by every imaginable weapon of fake Irish culture: from Shamrock Shakes […]
I purchased a copy of Soul Garden, A Catholic Mother’s Collective, when it was first published by Ignatius Press in November. Soon after, I couldn’t resist giving my copy away to a new mom. When […]
History has brought us to a crossroads in the life of the Catholic Church. As one papacy ends and the prayers and the collective mind of the Church give more thought to what the right […]
Two recent editorials in The New York Times—one by Damien Cave and one by Amanda Taub—argue that “zero-sum game” thinking is on the rise in American geopolitics. In a zero-sum game, like tic-tac-toe or chess, one person’s gain is […]
When Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ came out in 2004, the Catholic and Christian reaction blew the doors off theaters. Love it or hate it, the impact that remarkable (though rough) film has had on […]
We all know—we all know—that family and home life are the most important shapers of human character, and thus the most important shapers of society. “Train up a child in the way he should go; […]
[T]here remains the historical truth: that this our European structure, built upon the noble foundations of classical antiquity, was formed through, exists by, is consonant to, and will stand only in the mold of, the […]
Jesus Christ made statements about himself that if not true would make him the greatest egomaniac who ever walked the earth—statements such as “I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes […]
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