Benjamin O’Brien is the author of The Proving Grounds: A Catholic on Ladder 17 (Ignatius Press, 2025), a memoir of a rookie firefighter who struggles to overcome the challenges of his dangerous job while growing in […]
My previous article on history and nationalism elicited far more responses than I had anticipated. What I saw simply as a window into one aspect of American Catholic intellectual life seems to have touched a […]
Sometime last century, at the Fisher House chaplaincy in Cambridge, the Dominican chaplain told a joke in his homily—it was the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola—about the difference between Jesuits and Dominicans. He explained […]
Pomp, Circumstance, and Unsolicited Advice (Ignatius Press, 2025) brings together two dozen commencement addresses and university lectures, given since the turn of the century, from George Weigel. These addresses and lectures, given in academic settings, […]
Many books and essays have looked at the many cultural, social, and historical aspects of the Sexual Revolution. But few have delved into the destruction and suffering caused by that revolution, and have provided a […]
There had to be men and women saints of all kinds. And today. . . we ought perhaps to have saints of yet another kind. — Charles Peguy, The Mystery of the Charity of Joan […]
Unless you pay much attention to the tiny subculture that is Catholic-Calvinist ecumenical debate and apologetics, you likely wouldn’t know that the discussions can get quite heated and personal. When one respected Presbyterian pastor and […]
The Vision series of lives of the saints chapter books has been inspiring young people for decades now. The original series was published in the middle of the 20th century, featuring saints including Joan of Arc, Dominic, Kateri […]
I For the young to understand the esteem in which T.S. Eliot (1882-1965) was held from the 1920s to the 1980s, they would need to exercise a degree of historical imagination that most of them […]
Holy Thursday, April 17, marked the tenth anniversary of Cardinal Francis George’s death after a lengthy battle with cancer. In the past decade, Catholics—especially American Catholics—have suffered from his absence. With his keen intellect, deep […]
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