In the wake of Flannery O’Connor’s death on March 25, 1965, the Trappist monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton said, “When I read Flannery O’Connor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, […]
As the saying goes: When a person tells you who they are, believe them. So I argued after the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, last year. Standing on the loggia of […]
In December 2024, I had the great fortune of venerating the skull of one of my great spiritual and intellectual heroes: Saint Thomas Aquinas. We had gathered up our four kids in the minivan, driven […]
On December 31, 2022—three years ago today—the world lost one of the greatest Catholic leaders of the past century: Pope Benedict XVI. But, in addition to his many pastoral roles as priest, bishop, prefect of […]
December 9 marks the anniversary of the death of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, one of the greatest evangelists of the twentieth century. Known above all for his pioneering work in radio and television—at the peak […]
On November 10, 1619, during a Saint Martin’s Eve celebration in Germany, a twenty-three-year-old French soldier slipped into a small room with a stove to do some thinking—and it changed the course of history. Philosophy, […]
Saint Jude, whose feast the Church celebrates on October 28, is known the world over for his patronage—that of hopeless causes—and for the Children’s Research Hospital named in his honor. But what some might not […]
“Pride Month” disappeared into the rearview mirror a month ago, so it’s easy to wonder whether it ever really arrived at all, so muted was the celebration this year. Over at Daily Wire, my colleague […]
John Green, the author of the mega-hit The Fault in Our Stars, recently posted a video titled “My Religion.” Green is, by all accounts, a tremendously successful and thoughtful man: He’s a New York Times bestselling author (with […]
Sixty years ago, on June 7, 1965, the Supreme Court in its Griswold v. Connecticut decision ruled against a state ban on contraception. This established the infamous “right to privacy” that was later used to […]
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