The Unexpected Benefits of AI
With AI taking over our kids’ lives, rote learning and penmanship may conversely be the elite classrooms of the future.
The View from the Laity: A Response to Fr. Gill
While it is a laudable desire for priests to try and celebrate the Novus Ordo reverently, it still contains temptations that work against that desire.
On Small Laws
“When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom, you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” And so we have the continuing melodrama in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Happy Birthday, Miss Austen
While many have twisted her into an icon of feminist activism, Jane Austen’s works attest to her wholly Christian world-view and values.
Skip the Daily Homily
Allowing a priest to omit a daily homily would be good for both the priest and the congregation.
A Good Teacher
In November, Holy Mother Church bids us lift our eyes to the end, but how faithfully do we proclaim that life is a preparation for eternity and that failure is a possibility?
On Cardinal Burke and Hobbits
In a world and at a time when men have discarded the idea of intellectual truth, it is through the soul and in the imagination that they can, and must, be reached.
Whatever Happened to the Holy Ghost?
In a frenzy to make themselves feel relevant, 60’s churchmen did violence to Church language, and with it our understanding. It may be time to revisit the prudence of them having “given up the Ghost.”
The Pope of Ironies
The reign of Pope Francis was one filled with apparent incongruities and even contradictions.
Why Are They Leaving?
Before asking what to do with those who want to come to America, it may be helpful to ask why they are seeking to leave their homeland in the first place. And what can we do about that?
Dishonest Agreement
The pope’s comment that “All religions are a path to God” was another instance where he says something which sounds charitable—and was likely meant charitably—but, in the end, turns out not to be so.
What Kamala Will Face
Kamala Harris, the woman appointed as the “People’s Choice,” will find it difficult going if she is elected in November.
On (Un)Civil Discourse
One of the purposes of politics is persuasion. We are not persuading others when we call them names and insult them.
Who Are the Guardians of Tradition?
The third and final episode in the “Mass of the Ages” documentary trilogy traces the renewed interest in—and renewed attacks against—the traditional Latin Mass.
Lent and Taxes
An unjust law is no law. And I would offer the proposition that the current tax system is unjust.
The Good News About Fiducia Supplicans
Fiducia Supplicans does, as Cardinal Fernández and Pope Francis hoped it would, provide clarity; it just isn’t the clarity they wanted.
The Roots of Our Disrespect for Life
Contraception precipitates abortion. To be against abortion but silent on contraception is like being against racism but silent on bigotry.
God’s Preemptive Strikes
Usually, the Church proclaims a dogma in reaction to a spreading heresy. But the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption were preemptively declared to prepare for future heresies.
What’s Missing From the Synod
The Gospel has nothing to say about enabling, but it says much about sacrifice. The upcoming Synod needs to remember that.
Dodger Blues
Baseball is the “national pastime,” the most integrating—and the most integrated—of all professional sports. Now it sees fit to attack members of the nation’s largest religious group.