Poverty: An Antidote To Technological Dystopia
If technological utopianism is a manifestation of self-worship, one can better appreciate the positive role played by poverty.
If technological utopianism is a manifestation of self-worship, one can better appreciate the positive role played by poverty.
The very fact that there are still Jews today serves as a motive of credibility manifesting the miraculous power of God in the world.
Every time the Church has appeared close to destruction, it has prevailed.
Our modern age promotes participation in the porn industry as “empowering,” but it is in sacrifice and dying to self that we truly find happiness.
A Pakistani Catholic family, along with many others, needs help after fleeing from Muslim persecution.
Though typically memorialized as one of the earliest exemplars of the science-fiction genre, “War of the Worlds” offers a biting commentary on the futility and uselessness of the theologically-inclined, and especially clerics.
Fifty years ago, the percentage of religiously unaffiliated Americans was about five percent of the population, meaning that in just two generations that cohort has increased 500 percent, and most of that has been just in the last twenty-five years.
Distributism often has poor economic reasoning behind it, but it also posits important points about the role of economies in a just society.
Celebrity pastor Rick Warren argues for doctrinal and disciplinal innovations based on polling data. Catholics would do well to be suspicious of following his lead.
Since Dobbs, liberal corporate legacy media is running as many stories as possible on the indignities suffered by women across the United States who have had difficulty procuring an abortion. Pro-lifers need to respond.
For anyone who understands the principles underlying Protestant definitions and interpretations of Holy Scripture, radical pro-transgender Protestants should not be all that surprising.Â
I’d like my children to identify vocations (and perhaps professions) that will provide for their needs and give them some degree of personal fulfillment. But I would never tell them that their careers are the most important thing.
The biggest threat facing America today isn’t China, Russia, radical sexual or racial ideologies, globalism or widening economic disparities. The gravest threat is the dramatic decline in citizens’ religious affiliation and belief.
It would not be hyperbolic to say that the pandemic dramatically accelerated the de-Christianization of the United States.
Courage is not a onetime choice. It is one we must make every day. We choose it through sacrifices, prayer, the sacraments, and moral living.
A prominent liberal asks: Why do conservative Christians seem to treat the sin of homosexuality different than the sins of adultery or divorce?
I despise the commercialization of Christmas as much as the next Catholic, but we are foolish not to leverage the many (mixed) blessings afforded to us by technology and capitalism.
According to the twenty-first century multiculturalist, St. Martin of Tours was a cultural imperialist for overthrowing the pagan idols of his time.
Race-based theology represents a direct attack on the very heart of Christianity, and certainly Catholicism.
In an America increasingly hostile to both evangelicals and Catholics, we need to not only reinforce the ecumenical qualities of the pro-life movement, but we need to expand out into other areas.