As we head toward Laetare Sunday, many of us are feeling rather discouraged by the inconstancy of our Lenten disciplines. We woke up on Ash Wednesday piously determined to pray the Rosary every day, or […]
The three pillars of Lent—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—must always be our primary focus during these forty days. The purpose—or end—of these disciplines is to grow closer to God through spiritual and corporal works. While we […]
In early November 1942, the Allied forces finally and permanently gained control of Libya and Egypt from the Axis powers following the Second Battle at El Alamein. Along with the November 8 Allied invasion of […]
Over the course of a few days in mid-January, the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) heard oral argument in a major Title IX case, a U.S. Senate committee held a hearing about the danger of chemical abortions, and […]
At the beginning of episode seven of the second season of the TV series “Breaking Bad,” a mariachi band sings a Mexican corrido, or narrative ballad, about the show’s antihero protagonist Walter White. In the song, […]
When I was in college, I took a Church history class that used a textbook whose title I don’t remember by a Protestant author whose name I cannot recollect. What I do recall, however, is […]
In the past week or so, as I write this, the President of the United States has called a reporter “piggy,” the Governor of Minnesota “retarded,” and an entire ethnic group “garbage.” Also in the […]
Through recent comments from Pope Leo XIV and a statement by the United States Bishops at the end of the annual meeting of the USCCB, immigration is again in the headlines of both secular and […]
A major recent survey suggests that a new generation of Catholic priests is breaking free of the restrictive political labels of “conservative” and “liberal,” recognizing that the claims of our Faith transcend such increasingly anachronistic branding. […]
“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of wartime,” says Captain Charles Ryder in Evelyn Waugh’s novel, Brideshead Revisited. “These memories, which are my life—for we possess nothing certain […]
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