This election season has been trying for many, many reasons. It has been tough no matter your party affiliation or religion. But it has been particularly frustrating for Catholics, who have been subjected to endless […]
Two years ago I came upon an album by a jazz trio that caught my attention because the leader was Director of Music at Sacred Heart Parish (the crypt church beneath the University of Notre […]
A lot of bad things happen in a world that has lost God. One is the disappearance of the rational freedom that is the natural setting for faith, science, morality, and pursuit of the common […]
Joel Salatin has been writing books on biological farming for more than 20 years. Early on, in books like Pastured Poultry Profits (1996) and Salad Bar Beef (1995) he explained the details of specific types […]
It is almost a year now since Pope Francis made his first trip to Africa, visiting Kenya, Uganda, and the Central African Republic. In Kenya, the Pope had tough words on corruption, in response to […]
Mel Gibson’s latest film, Hacksaw Ridge, approaches the war-movie genre—in all its grisly post-Saving Private Ryan realism—with a similar strategy to 2014’s Unbroken. As the earlier film used the backdrop of war to zero-in on […]
Having been away from the director’s chair since 2006, Mel Gibson steps behind the camera again with Hacksaw Ridge, in theaters November 4. The biopic tells the story of Desmond Doss, a Medal of Honor […]
Several days ago I received an email from the Wall Street Journal asking my opinion of the reported accord about to take place between Pope Francis and Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist […]
I’m not sure it’s possible to go five minutes without a “judgment” unless you’re unconscious or asleep. These people need to read a little Kant (something I wouldn’t usually recommend). A friend writes to ask […]
In 1152-1154 Cardinal Nicholas Breakspear was on a tour of the North, visiting Norway and Sweden by the instigation of Pope Eugene III. During the summer of 1152 he presided over a meeting in Linköping […]
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