Books
Fatherhood and the search for culture
Something both theatrical and absurd happened in front of the General Post Office of Dublin on Easter Monday in 1916 An Irish schoolteacher named Patrick [...]
Fatherhood and the search for culture
Books
Something both theatrical and absurd happened in front of the General Post Office of Dublin on Easter Monday in 1916 An Irish schoolteacher named Patrick Pearse proclaimed to the passersby that Ireland was no longer [...]
The Trinity: A Mystery for Eternity
Essay
Readings: • Prov 8:22-31 • Ps 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • Rom 5:1-5 • Jn 16:12-15 The apologist and novelist Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) dryly noted, in an essay titled “The Dogma is the Drama,” that for [...]
Features
Why saying “I’m Gay” offends chastity and contradicts Church doctrine
If “gay is good,” then “I’m gay” is also good. But if “gay” is not good, then neither is “I’m gay.” And we know that “gay” is decidedly not good. Not only is it not [...]
Features
“Chernobyl” offers a grim, dramatic indictment of socialism
Back in 1986, the Turkish government had to stop giving me and other elementary school children tiny packages of hazelnuts because somewhere in the USSR something had exploded, and somehow that explosion had poisoned the [...]
Clark on China
China, politics, faith, and the liturgical village: Cardinal Joseph Zen in context
Editor’s note: During the week of May 28 to 31, 2019, several hundred Catholic lay faithful, priests, deacons, nuns, and three bishops gathered at Spokane, Washington, for the annual Sacred Liturgy Conference. The conference was [...]
Interview
What does the Bible really say about Mary, the Mother of the Messiah?
Dr. Brant Pitre is Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at the Augustine Institute in Denver, Colorado. He earned his Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, specializing in the study of the New Testament [...]
Essay
Pentecost and the Blessed Virgin Mary
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the Vigil of Pentecost, June 7, 2019, for the Catholic Writers’ Retreat at Seton Hall University, South Orange, [...]
Essay
“The old soldier is forgotten in peace”
I was first introduced to Percy by my nonagenarian neighbor, the indefatigable George. Like many of my elderly neighbors, George has lived on this street since the houses were first built, one of the many [...]
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There is no ideal society this side of the Second Coming. Flawed people can’t create such things, and we’re all flawed, so social gains are offset by social losses. Current tendencies of thought, which reject [...] -
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Reaction to the unexpected release of a lengthy text—almost exactly 6,000 words in all—by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, titled “The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse”, has been both swift and polarized. Some have [...] -
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