Features
Rights, Catholic Principles, and Prudence
When we have political disputes in the country, one way of trying to help clarify matters would be to remind the interlocutors of the relevant [...]
Rights, Catholic Principles, and Prudence
Features
When we have political disputes in the country, one way of trying to help clarify matters would be to remind the interlocutors of the relevant moral principles that should govern their disagreement. Murdering innocent people [...]
The story of two Irish American city boys and an urban Catholic parish
Columns
It is March. St. Patrick’s Day season is upon us. Americans of all and no ethnic traditions will be subject to a full-scale assault by every imaginable weapon of fake Irish culture: from Shamrock Shakes [...]
Books
Digging deep beneath the surface of motherhood
I purchased a copy of Soul Garden, A Catholic Mother’s Collective, when it was first published by Ignatius Press in November. Soon after, I couldn’t resist giving my copy away to a new mom. When [...]
Features
The Psychological Makeup of the Catholic Liberal
History has brought us to a crossroads in the life of the Catholic Church. As one papacy ends and the prayers and the collective mind of the Church give more thought to what the right [...]
Features
The zero-sum crisis and the paradoxical solution
Two recent editorials in The New York Times—one by Damien Cave and one by Amanda Taub—argue that “zero-sum game” thinking is on the rise in American geopolitics. In a zero-sum game, like tic-tac-toe or chess, one person’s gain is [...]
Features
The Last Supper is too safe and sentimental to be significant
When Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ came out in 2004, the Catholic and Christian reaction blew the doors off theaters. Love it or hate it, the impact that remarkable (though rough) film has had on [...]
Books
Thoughtful home, better world
We all know—we all know—that family and home life are the most important shapers of human character, and thus the most important shapers of society. “Train up a child in the way he should go; [...]
Essay
Europe and the Betrayal of the Faith
[T]here remains the historical truth: that this our European structure, built upon the noble foundations of classical antiquity, was formed through, exists by, is consonant to, and will stand only in the mold of, the [...]
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It is March. St. Patrick’s Day season is upon us. Americans of all and no ethnic traditions will be subject to a full-scale assault by every imaginable weapon of fake Irish culture: from Shamrock Shakes [...] -
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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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Fr Peter Morello PhD:
Only for your eternal welfare William. That in all honesty. My pity is genuine.
Peter D. Beaulieu:
While overly brief, but clearly reaffirmed in Gaudium et Spes, is this: “...the Council wishes to recall first of all…
