In 2014, New York City firefighter Matthew Byrne, after years of suffering from substance abuse and depression following PTSD, took his own life. Matthew and I grew up in the same town and went to […]
My sophomore English teacher taught an invaluable writing lesson that has stayed with me: “Show, don’t tell.” In explicating texts, we should make our point directly without saying we are doing so. Rather than begin […]
Renowned worldwide for his radical poverty and profound humility, St. Francis of Assisi is among the most famous of God’s saints. It is no wonder, then, that, like his master Jesus of Nazareth, Francis has […]
The day before his elevation to the Sacred College of Cardinals was announced, Archbishop Francis George of Chicago, delivering an unprepared homily at a Saturday evening Mass, threw down a challenge to “liberal Catholicism.” He called it […]
What is the purpose of education? Is it, as Justice Sonya Sotomayor recently wrote in dissent of Mahmoud v. Taylor, “that children may come together to learn not the teachings of a particular faith, but […]
Remember when we heard about “tolerance” constantly? A few decades ago, tolerance was “in”—we were told to tolerate others’ opinions and actions, regardless of what they may be. Some even called tolerance a virtue. In […]
Contemporary theology receives its purpose from God. It receives its shape from St. John Henry Newman, who, as Joseph Ratzinger stated on the English cardinal’s centenary in 1990, made “his decisive contribution to the renewal […]
What is the one thing more outlandish than claiming a crucified criminal rose gloriously from the dead? Answer: Claiming that this man existed for one purpose: the forgiveness of sins. Forgiveness, as doctrine and salutary […]
Vice President JD Vance is currently the rock star of the conservative Catholic world. His youth, style, upbringing, conversion, young family, and proximity to President Donald Trump have collided to make him the runaway favorite […]
The “right to privacy,” invented by the Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut (which was argued in March 1965 and decided in June 1965) is a cleverly woven fig leaf for immorality. It transferred moral […]
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