As we approach the halfway point of the Lenten season, many of us are experiencing a sort of “mid-Lent crisis.” So many things we had hoped to accomplish remain undone, half-done, or not really done—checked off, in […]
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 […]
In his talk on the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, which has now amassed almost three million views on YouTube, Bishop Robert Barron calls Christ’s “bread of life” teaching in John 6 a “standing […]
This past Tuesday evening, Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP—Dominican priest, cofounder of the bluegrass band the Hillbilly Thomists, and the first American rector of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome (colloquially the […]
Bryan Johnson, a tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has dedicated himself to the age-old pursuit of the fountain of youth, but with a new twist: putting all the power of modern science and technology to […]
“In heaven, everything is fine . . .” Either this line means nothing to you, or it calls to mind the uniquely awful—and awfully unique—dread of Eraserhead. Such was the influence of the surrealist filmmaker David […]
On day two of the USCCB Fall Assembly this week, Archbishop Borys Gudziak spoke about the tenth anniversary of Laudato Si’ in 2025 and proposed a striking idea for marking the occasion in the US: restoring the Friday […]
The Church, in various periods of her history, has had to deal with the scourge of moral rigorism—a distorted emphasis on upright behavior. The prototypical rigorist movement, certainly in the modern era, was Jansenism, a […]
In his First Letter to Timothy, St. Paul, when laying out the qualifications of a bishop, includes this telling remark: “He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit […]
In advance of the Jubilee Year of 2025, Pope Francis declared 2024 a Year of Prayer—a time “dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer in personal life, in the life of the […]
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