The durability of wokeness
Columns
In 2020, I wrote a column about wokeness, the view that group inequalities are intolerable evils, caused solely by institutionalized bigotry, that must urgently be extirpated. I said that its ambition and moralism allow no [...]
Pope Leo XIV and Europe
Analysis
During the 2013 conclave, many European cardinal electors likely voted for Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentinian-born son of an Italian immigrant, with the hope that he would bridge Europe, the traditional heartland of the Church, [...]
Essay
Active Participation Revisited
Nearly ten years ago, I found myself in Rome for a private audience with Cardinal Robert Sarah, the then-Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, in order to share [...]
Essay
Cardinal McElroy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and The Social Contract
On September 26, Cardinal Robert McElroy delivered a speech titled “A Social Contract for the Digital Age” at St. Anselm’s Abbey School in Washington, D.C. The talk summarized how the concept of social contract needs [...]
Books
New book addresses conflicts over abortion, gender treatments, conscience
There is perhaps no more polarizing issue in American society than abortion. Other contentious issues include so-called gender issues, sexual morality, and the role of and rights related to conscience. A new book by Christopher [...]
Essay
“In the presence of the angels I will praise Thee…”
Popular culture reflects the true nature of angels as faithfully as a funhouse mirror. It shows glorious incorporeal spirits in fanciful shapes, from pudgy winged babies to ethereal Nature goddesses, and turns these false images [...]
Essay
Evangelization and Blessed Fulton J. Sheen
Editor’s note: The following homily was delivered on September 27, 2026, at the Oratory of Saints Gregory and Augustine, St. Louis, within the celebration of the Beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. The most important [...]
Features
Baptized by Fulton Sheen: Bishop Barres reflects on new blessed’s holiness and mission
This week, I traveled to St. Louis with thousands of other Catholics from throughout the country for the Beatification Mass of Fulton Sheen. It was deeply uplifting to see so many people gathered together who, [...]
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“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...] -
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Joy is an emotional state linked to sensible pleasure and satisfaction. Awe is a profound emotional response to something vast…
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“The Pope himself suggests that equality is much more important than the sexual morality that has been a basic Christian…
