Humble Weapons for Humble Warriors
Relics and sacramentals—bone, skin, muscle, clothing, salt, water, ash—are all things that ground us, the humblest of spiritual weapons.
No Ordinary Woman
Mary is not the poster child for either the prosperity gospel or liberation theology; she is the one who declares that God “has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted those of low degree.”
Summoning Our Inner St. Paul
When everyone is going along to get along, no one really gets along. Cowardice is the beginning of the end for all things good.
Spiritual Warfare: Bring in the Reserves
The Holy Spirit is awakening soldiers and has gone out in the back alleys and byways to enlist them.
We Become the Symbol
Wedding “unity” ceremonies, while well-intentioned, often replace sustenance with ritual and sentimentality.
Thirsting for Souls
Unlike Dennis Prager’s “silo approach” to sin, the Christian view of sin includes a wholesome, integrated view of the human person.
Just Plain Stupid
The technological marvels of our era have promoted mass vanity, the delusion that we are the masters of our destiny: a perfect storm for mass stupidity.
Big Medicine’s Fight Against Nature
Modern conventional medicine practitioners have become purveyors of sort of a “noble savage” concept of health, hence their nearly total lack of interest in diet, exercise, balanced sun exposure, fresh air, and health maintenance in general.
The Centrality of Womanhood
Woman is the hub of the family and, therefore, the hub of humanity. Destroying that hub grinds civilization to a halt—and along with it, all that is humane.
Without Peer: Disqualifying Christians from Jury Duty
Devout Christians are no longer “peers” with most Americans, marking them as inadmissible candidates in many jury trials.
The Fallacy of Centrism and the Heresy of Americanism
Christianity is the enemy of centrism, which has become the false god of democratic republics everywhere.
Psychology: Replacing the Couch with Knife and Injection
The psychology profession, growing ever larger, seems more and more to have given up on counseling. Why spend time talking when you can prescribe a drug or provide a surgical procedure that will make the problem go away?
Bring Back the Box
Face-to-face Confession has become the norm. But I can’t help but wonder how many souls have been discouraged in the process. Confession is easily the most intimate spiritual thing imaginable. Is assumed confidentiality really enough?
Our Sad Abandonment of the Souls of the Unborn
The souls of unborn children enter eternity with free will but no (or precious little) information on which to base a decision. Would they be denied that information? Would Christ not preach to them?
Conversion Is Not a Four-Letter Word
Tomorrow, July 30th, is the 100th anniversary of Chesterton’s reception into the Catholic Faith. Let us look to him for a deeper understanding of the importance of calling non-Catholics to conversion to the Church.
The Dark Heritage of Cookie-Cutter Philosophy
Cookie-cutter philosophers will always cleverly label the wisdom of the ages as yesteryear’s worn-out fashion—as archaic ideas whose time has come and gone. They will attempt to free us from the very thing that gives us freedom.
Beyond Bumper-Sticker Theology
The Faith dies a little with each desperate reductionism—with each attempt to convince rationalists that reason can comfortably be abandoned in favor of faith because, well, shut up!
The Sovereignty of the Personal Conscience Is on Trial
The law seems, on one hand, to treat corporate entities as persons and on the other as some sort of lottery winner, with all sorts of tax benefits unavailable to real persons.
Brotherly Harshness in a World of Tribal Empathy
The race that does not accept respect for man from the time of his conception, is destined to an ignominious end, because it distorts the concept of love of neighbor, mistakes it with egoism, and cannot conceive the love of God at all.
Weak Men Create Hard Times
If weak men produce hard times, shouldn’t the avoidance of this be paramount in our minds? After two millennia of Christianity, shouldn’t the Church have a formula for avoiding this? In fact, she does.