Why So Serious?
What young people need most right now is not so much understanding, compassion, antidepressants, or therapy; they need a good belly laugh, preferably at their own expense.
What young people need most right now is not so much understanding, compassion, antidepressants, or therapy; they need a good belly laugh, preferably at their own expense.
The winners of the recent Pontifical Academies Sacred Architecture Award speak in a thing I shall call The Language of No.
Surrogacy creates a fake and contrived unreality: it rejects the fundamental relationship between intercourse and procreation.
The Jesus Revolution had all the elements of something I’d love: Jesus; the marvelously gifted Jonathan Roumie; the beautiful beaches of southern California; and redemption. Recipe for success; but it left me strangely unaffected.
Protecting the innocence of children is the most minimal function of a society that calls itself civilized.
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.
Hope-filled in its conclusion, a new book offers the Catholic community a fresh look at current issues, addressing them with scholarly and thoughtful argumentation, and peaceful and commonsense rhetoric.
Gender ideology has become an obsession throughout the West, and it’s transforming into a practical tyranny.
While Catholics may rightly admire and be inspired by such moments as the Asbury Revival, it is important that they look beyond the moment as well.
A relatively obscure painting speaks to the Pro-Life movement, to the shifting sands of familial ideologies, and to the necessity of loving the simple and domestic realities of life.
One of the particular strengths of Father Elijah is the way in which O’Brien brings his eponymous hero to fully-fledged and fully-fleshed life.
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.
Time and again we learn that the sexual revolution and the homosexual/trans agenda poison everything they touch.
The new series “Kaleidoscope” does the impossible and breaks out of the tired stereotypes of the heist genre.
The reason why the present vaccine regime is satanic has nothing to do with the reality of vaccinations as a form of immunization but, rather, with the rhetoric and mechanisms by which they have been enforced on the population.
I don’t like where we are headed. We’re running out of goods to reject or destroy. We’re almost at the point of no return.
The meta-narrative of the ungodly is rather soul crushing. How can we begin to counter this narrative arc, to re-present the truth of the human person as a complex, mysterious, purposefully-crafted being made by God?
Tim Powers, the author of “Declare,” stands out from the crowd of contemporary novelists because he is a faithful Catholic who has somehow managed to swim in the toxic mainstream without compromising his faith or principles.
The rise of contraception led to the phenomenon of “feral children” – young people left alone with no one to guide them.
One of the demands of Catholic social teaching is that there should be societies, and one of the most obvious features of contemporary life is that it is destructive of societies.