Analysis
NPR and the Shrinking of the Western Mind
I have noticed something of a pattern with National Public Radio (NPR) lately: when they interview or feature religious persons, said persons tend also to [...]
NPR and the Shrinking of the Western Mind
Analysis
I have noticed something of a pattern with National Public Radio (NPR) lately: when they interview or feature religious persons, said persons tend also to be homosexual. In February 2023, Ashlee Green wrote a gushing [...]
Cardinal Burke appeals for restoration of Traditional Latin Mass
Features
Cardinal Raymond Burke gives the final blessing during the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage Mass in Rome on Oct. 25, 2014. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Rome Newsroom, Jun 16, 2025 / 16:31 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Raymond Burke said he has asked Pope Leo… […]
Columns
Technology and Social Justice
Misconceptions about human life and social order lead to endless trouble. So, I’ll make a few more comments on current misconceptions that relate to social justice. One misconception is an overemphasis on individual choice that [...]
Books
Fighting fires and growing in faith: An interview with Benjamin O’Brien
Benjamin O’Brien is the author of The Proving Grounds: A Catholic on Ladder 17 (Ignatius Press, 2025), a memoir of a rookie firefighter who struggles to overcome the challenges of his dangerous job while growing in [...]
Essay
A Man’s Place in the Home: A Biblical Perspective
Living in Exile “Reflect on what has been assigned to you.” Sirach 3:22 Today, fewer than half of adult American women are married. While that percentage was notably higher in the 70s, I witnessed firsthand a key [...]
Books
The idolatry and “religion” of our present age
My previous article on history and nationalism elicited far more responses than I had anticipated. What I saw simply as a window into one aspect of American Catholic intellectual life seems to have touched a [...]
Columns
Cultivating the Soul: Gardening as Catechesis
It has been a good stretch in the Ramage garden lately—or at least a busy one. Between harvesting greens, picking the season’s first strawberries, watering young tomato plants, and doing battle with proliferating weeds, my [...]
Books
Comparing the affinities, differences between Ignatius and Aquinas
Sometime last century, at the Fisher House chaplaincy in Cambridge, the Dominican chaplain told a joke in his homily—it was the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola—about the difference between Jesuits and Dominicans. He explained [...]
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Misconceptions about human life and social order lead to endless trouble. So, I’ll make a few more comments on current misconceptions that relate to social justice. One misconception is an overemphasis on individual choice that [...] -
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The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...] -
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Elias Galy:
The word cult has a positive sense and usage in the Catholic faith. Mass conversion worked by the BVM has…
Mary McCurry:
Robert, you said "trads reject Vatican II. The Church needs to make up its mind: we are either preconciliar or…
Fr Peter Morello PhD:
Thanks for the correction. Acronyms wiz I'm not.
