Recently Fox News ran an article entitled ‘God’ left out of Biden’s National Day of Prayer proclamation. Not that I questioned the veracity of the report, given President Joe Biden’s [...]
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America: One Nation Under…What?
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The Irrelevance of Race
More than a half century has elapsed since the murder of Martin Luther King. How did the nation react to his killing? The answer is easy. There was an immediate [...]
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Being Critical of Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is sweeping through many organizations, schools, and even religious organizations today. However, CRT—its origins, its fruits, and its effects—is contrary to love. As Catholics, we must [...]
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Abortion’s Malignant Reach
Last month Judicial Watch released an extensive report detailing the Food and Drug Administration’s program for buying the body parts of dead unborn babies for use in mice “humanization” projects. [...]
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Who is the Best Mother in Literature?
During the shutdown last spring, one of the unexpected blessings of quarantine was reconnecting with college friends on Zoom. We all had nowhere to be, so a group of us [...]
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Oedipus at Colonus in a Nutshell
As we saw in the previous essay in this series, Oedipus Rex presents the riddle of man without offering any solution. It seems to beg innumerable questions on the nature [...]
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Those Nones Certainly Aren’t Nothing
We do not live in a secular society. Most of us think we do. It is a truism of our time. Folks are flooding out of the Church and embracing [...]
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Antisocial Justice
Which is better for your own sake, to think that most people will treat you well, even if that is not quite true, or to think that most people will [...]
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Love Is Not Love
On May 10, 2021, over 500 Catholic priests throughout Germany will hold a mass blessing of gay unions that will take place in 50 different parishes. Most of these clerics [...]
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The Theological Illiteracy of “Dare We Hope?”
It has rightly been said that in order to appreciate the “Good News” of salvation we first need to recognize the bad news of damnation. This point appears to have [...]
