The duality of male and female is basic to human life. People find it inscrutable, suggestive, frustrating, necessary, and sublime all at once. That’s why it has given rise to so much great, not-great, and […]
Whit Stillman’s cult classic Metropolitan is an elegy for the haute bourgeoisie, the well-educated upper subdivision of the middle class that once set the cultural tone for liberal Western nations. Released in 1990, Stillman’s film […]
A new study released by the Pew Research Center indicates that 29% of Americans now self-identify as having no religious affiliation of any kind. And only 63% of Americans identify as Christians, which is 12% […]
Last week, I went to confession at a shrine near me, which I will not name. It was one of those infuriating confessions in which you try to convince the priest that what you are […]
My last column delved into the Church’s belief that each creature—even those we find irritating or inconsequential—mirrors the beauty of the divine Logos in our world. Yet, even as every feature of the cosmos reflects […]
People today say social engagement is a basic part of the Christian life. Even so, it is shot through with paradox. Christ was not part of everyday social life. He had no property, no job, […]
The latest document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, titled Fiducia Supplicans (Supplicating Trust), has generated a lot of controversy since its release early Monday. And as has become more and more […]
At first glance Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s new Credo: Compendium of the Catholic Faith raises no eyebrows. Framed in the time-tested question and answer format of older catechisms of happy memory it lends itself to an […]
In the debut of this column last month, we examined the ancient Christian conviction that our Lord authored “two books,” which is to say that nature is an epiphany of the divine splendor analogous to […]
In March 2023, the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles, a devout Catholic, set off a firestorm by stating bluntly, “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.” With some biological males identifying as women and now […]
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