Going “No-Contact”
Adult children are increasingly “going no-contact” with their parents, calling them “toxic.” But loving someone who is challenging isn’t abusive: it’s sanctifying.
Whither Sacramental Marriage: Problems We Have Culturally and Catechetically
The problem isn’t that priests have gone away; it’s that weddings have. Reversing the collapse of Catholic marriage requires a rival culture built on a proper understanding of freedom.
The Call to Become Co-Redeemers: The Real Issue Behind the Co-Redemptrix
Mary’s unique cooperation in salvation is paradigmatic for every believer. The real issue behind Co-Redemptrix is whether we will answer the call to become co-redeemers with Christ.
Two Paths for Austria
Since 1918, every Austrian has been faced with two paths—the Blessed Karl Path and the Karl Renner Path. Those in charge of Church and State in Austria have too often chosen the latter.
The Vindication of Thomas Aquinas College
In an AI-dominated world, what is still needed are minds formed in first principles, not specific skill sets. That makes a school like Thomas Aquinas College one of the most practical choices a young man can make.
Pope Leo Calls Out a Warlord
Pope Leo XIV quietly called Vladimir Putin, much as Leo the Great once knelt before Attila. The administration of the Church is properly done on knees and in cabinets and not over the internet.
Our Balkanized, Imperial Present—and Future
Such balkanization of our political life is both the cause and consequence of America’s imperial ambitions. The midterms made plain what mass migration and client-state politics have done to the republic.
How the Devil Defeats Us
Men need true friends who will support them, challenge their vices, and help them think through a confused world. To forgo friendship is to harm our bodies, souls, and minds…and it’s how the devil wins.
Oscar Wilde’s Escape from the Culture of Death
Nobody, however deep in the gutter, is beyond the love of Christ. Oscar Wilde’s deathbed conversion was not the clutch of a drowning man but a return to a first love.
Job Revisited
Job’s cry for a mediator between himself and God is the cry of everyone who suffers, and it is answered only by a God willing to enter into that suffering Himself.
Anakin Skywalker and the Fall of the Republican Party
Young conservatives are done voting for the lesser of two evils every election. The Anakin meme captured that disillusionment, and the midterm wipeout showed what happens when America First voters sit it out.
Fr. James Martin Wants You to Believe the Debate Is All Over
Fr. James Martin’s charm offensive wants you to believe the debate over homosexuality in the Church is finished. He does not believe that—and he won’t, until married gays can kiss at the sign of peace.
Dunbar’s Number and the Mission of the Laity
A priest can’t personally shepherd thousands of parishioners—Dunbar’s Number explains why. The laity must help in the mission of saving souls.
Billy Corgan’s Christian Faith: God, Gen X, and Rock’s Third Rail
Billy Corgan, one of the defining voices of Generation X, now openly professes Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. His long, meandering path to faith should matter to Catholics.
Your Priest Is Not Your Performer
If we treat the priest as our personal performer, we sully his vocation, reduce the sanctuary to a mere stage, and reorient the Mass toward us—both physically and spiritually.
Christian Public School Teachers Aren’t Allowed to Have Opinions
A British teacher was fired for calmly admitting she is pro-life. The same quiet crackdown on Christian and conservative teachers is common in American public schools, and it needs to finally end.
Synodality’s Been a Problem for a Long Time
The Church in the fourth century was certainly a “synodal Church,” but the solution to the Arian crisis was not the synodal path. It was the steadfastness of Rome and the consensus of the faithful.
Paris Was Burning
If France—or Europe—are to have a future, they cannot oppose a positive something—Islam—with nothing. In the longer run, she must look to the Faith that created them.
Meet the Rising Young Catholic Group Pressing for Tougher Immigration Enforcement
Young Catholics for Ordered Migration wants the bishops to hear another view on immigration, one rooted in the Church’s tradition. As its response to the USCCB put it, “We ask only that the second half of Catechism 2241 be preached with the same clarity as the first.”
Christ-Centered Catholic Spirituality: From Theocentric to Anthropocentric Spirituality thence to Synodality
The self-centered Anthropocentric Spirituality that crept into the Church after Quietism, with its endless “discernment,” is the forerunner of what is today called Synodality.
