Big Families, Wide Sidewalks, and Frogs
Our nation is broken to a certain extent because of the dearth of babies. The nation could heal with more of them.
Our nation is broken to a certain extent because of the dearth of babies. The nation could heal with more of them.
Flannery O’Connor is considered one of the greatest Catholic writers of all time, but most people, when asked about her, make a face. The new movie Wildcat is provocative enough to drive a new audience to her strangely redemptive stories.
The recent debate between Jimmy Akin and James White revealed much about the nature and content of Catholic-Protestant discussions.
Gratitude is an exercise of the heart not the mind, and as such it gives the mind the space it needs to rest.
You cannot have peace by merely assuming that people are going always to be pacific, reasonable, restrained in their desires, deferent to authority, and considerate of others.
We hear too often about priests who leave ministry. But it’s instructive to learn about a priest who considered leaving but didn’t: Fr. Bud Kieser.
Tucker Carlson claims that “spiritual” forces are at work in the world, directly involved in events from the creation of the atom bomb to supposed alien sightings. What are Catholics to make of these claims?
Many of our tech elites are spending vast amounts of money to defeat death and achieve physical immortality.
Women deserve better stories than Taylor Swift’s songs. Our daughters deserve better role models than the singer. It’s time to grow up.
In our world today, it is boldness among the faithful which is the ingredient that we lack the most.
What Eliot is trying to tell us is that the end will always be found in the beginning, and that when we finally do come to the end, it will have been granted to us so that once more we may return to the beginning.
By converting to Catholicism, Owens has demonstrated that her quest for truth was not merely a quest for fame or influence.
NPR’s beclouded notion of truth is convenient for journalists who, unfettered by any allegiance to objectivity, are free to choose whichever of the “many different truths” best align with their activist narratives.
Dignitas Infinita displays a dangerous naiveté about a supposed consensus of moral thinking.
Rather than primarily utilitarian, the college window should be about something much bigger than it actually is at most colleges.
No faithful Catholic could look at the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and be proud of that decision.
The painting “Madonna della Bocciata” at the Vatican is badly damaged, but we need to see a message in her wound.
Caring for the elderly is a challenge, but it can also be an opportunity for sainthood.
Recovering the Church’s tradition of regular and recurring religious practices throughout the day and in the course of the week, month, and year is not just folklore. It responds to a basic human need.