It is no secret that it is hard for a reverent Catholic to find a beautiful Mass. The desire for reverence is not the desire for a valid Mass, for [...]
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The Beauty of Reverence
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Teaching to Get to Heaven
“If young people are educated properly, we have moral order; if not, vice and disorder prevail. Religion alone can initiate and achieve a true education.” St. John Bosco’s understanding of [...]
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Andrew Breitbart Was Wrong?
Politics is downstream from culture. You have heard it plenty of times. Andrew Breitbart coined it, and many conservatives have adopted it as a truism, almost as gospel. But is [...]
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The Maple Street Monster Has Returned
As the first two months of the new year have come to a close, it's become apparent that the problems that plagued 2020 have followed us into 2021. In fact, [...]
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The Beiging of Bishop Barron
Bishop Robert Barron first came to fame in the Catholic world for his fight against what he called “beige Catholicism.” The founder of Word on Fire rightly saw that a [...]
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The Church and the Barbarians
One of the ironic things about my diploma from Princeton is that it is written in a language that almost none of the graduates understand: Latin. It confers upon me [...]
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The Origins of Woke Madness
It should be clear by now that truth is not a Woke value. Those on the far-left side of the political spectrum have made certain claims in recent years, including: [...]
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Mary, a Model for Islam?
Whatever else Pope Francis holds dear, vague notions of brotherhood and humanism—severed from any specifically Christian foundation—hold a certain pride of place. Pursuing those ideals apparently means sometimes it is [...]
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When Race Doesn’t Matter
It was only after I had begun Basic Training, courtesy of an offer from the U.S. Army I could not refuse, that I met my first black man. Well, maybe [...]
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The Rabbit Hole of Critical Thinking
Everything seems to be an existential threat nowadays—from racial, gender, economic and political inequalities, to climate change, to the coronavirus pandemic. However, if we have been paying attention to the [...]







