Pope Francis recently said that gender ideology is “the ugliest danger” we face today, because it “erases differences”, and “erasing differences erases humanity”. Indeed, gender ideology has rapidly swept into the mainstream in Western societies, […]
All of us suffer. We live in a fallen world, and suffering is simply a part of life. This suffering can take many forms, and we are all affected differently by it. But why do […]
Some of the most profound observations and depictions in recent decades about the challenges of modernity, technology, and current affairs have been made through science fiction and dystopian novels, movies, and television shows. Star Trek, […]
It is not every day that a major studio film features a Catholic priest in a sympathetic role and portrayed in a positive light. And it is even less often that he is the main […]
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest institutions in the world, spanning the entire globe. There may be no more daunting task for a historian than to try to write a concise (but not […]
Death is inevitable and Catholics recognize that it is something that must be done well. But what does it mean to die well? To die poorly? There are a number of spiritual and moral issues […]
We do not have photographs of the vast majority of the Church’s saints and blesseds. Portraits and sculptures suffice for most of them, and those of whom we do have photographs are usually shown in […]
The life of this mystic, composer, and saint was in many ways as tumultuous as the era in which she lived. […]
The role that art (and beauty in general) can play in evangelization, and in our own spiritual lives, is a matter of some debate. There is also a common misconception that beautiful art is a […]
The world is not a perfect place, by any stretch of the imagination. Rampant secularism, endless noise, social unrest, political upheaval, and cultural strife mark our times, perhaps more than ever before. It is apparent […]
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