Thomas Howard was a fascinating figure and a tremendously prolific author. He died in 2020 at the age of 85, after a long and successful career as an English professor, writer, critic, and apologist of […]
What does it mean to be a man? How are Catholic men supposed to navigate the tumultuous world we live in today? And what role does prayer play in that challenging task? The Catholic tradition […]
Detective stories have been a popular and fascinating genre of fiction for decades, going back to the mid-nineteenth century. From Sherlock Holmes to Father Brown, from Miss Marple to Hercule Poirot, from Nero Wolfe to The Maltese […]
The history of the Church is replete with spiritual autobiographies, many of them written by saints, and many more written by priests, religious, and laity who have not been raised to the altars. Many Catholics […]
The Church, throughout her long history, has faced many terrible trials, united her in a deep and real way with the sufferings of Jesus. How can we be the saints the Church needs today, during […]
Father John Nepil has accomplished something that few others—priests or otherwise—have accomplished: he has summited all 54 of Colorado’s mountain peaks higher than 14,000 feet—twice. In the summer of 2022, he set out to traverse […]
There are many problems with the education system in the United States and throughout Western society. These are problems in society as a whole, which have infected the education system. Literature studies are not immune. […]
The Catholic Church in Ireland is in trouble. Seminaries are nearly empty, as are many churches, and a nation turning its back on its Catholic roots by legalizing and promoting abortion, divorce, and more. But […]
Cardinal George Pell was a larger-than-life figure in the recent history of the Catholic Church. This is, of course, a figurative and even literal statement: he physically towered over his fellow cardinals, and had a […]
Priests are indispensable in the life of the Church. It is through our priests that we are reconciled with God, fed through the Holy Eucharist, brought into the Body of Christ through baptism, and much […]
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