Essay
On the Human Need for Beauty
I’ve always had an interest in history because history is to a culture as memory is to each of us as individuals. A man with amnesia is a man without an identity. The same applies […]
Articles by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap.
Essay
“Do this in remembrance of Me”: Memory, Culture, Sacrament
Editor’s note: The following keynote address was given by Archbishop Chaput at the Eucharistic Symposium at the Cathedral of Saint Thomas More in Arlington, VA, on October 22, 2022. ——————- Our theme today is the […]
Essay
On the Power of the Powerless
Editor’s note: This Bl. Alcuin of York Lecture was given at the Alcuin Institute, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on October 7, 2022. My focus tonight is baptism, but I want to approach it in roundabout […]
Essay
“Things worth dying for”: What those words demand from us now
Editor’s note: The following address was given at St. Francis De Sales Seminary, Milwaukee, on April 4, 2022. Our theme tonight is “things worth dying for,” and I want to talk about what those words […]
Books
Ideas have consequences
Richard Weaver, the political philosopher, once wrote that “ideas have consequences.” And therein lies a tale. In June 2001, exactly 20 years ago, a friend of mine and his wife attended a meeting in Washington, […]
Essay
Things To Come: Faith, State, and Society in a New World
“There are no new paradigms; no new hermeneutical principles; no revolutions in thought; and no possible concordats with the world and its alibis, that can […]
Features
Memory, Sex, and the Making of “The New Man”
The full text of the speech given Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. at the “Into the Breach” men’s conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday, February […]
Books
“Facts” and “values” and darkness at noon
(Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Archbishop Charles Chaput’s forthcoming book Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World (Henry Holt and Co.). The book will be available February 21.) […]