As I was reading Augustine’s discussion of true worship in the City of God this past week, I was struck by how naturally Augustine holds together things that contemporary Catholic culture has divided. Let me […]
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City on the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of […]
Editor’s note: This is Part II of a two-part essay; here is Part I. The Nature of Truth I argued in the previous section that Francis rejects propositional truth. On this view, the truth-status of […]
Editor’s note: The following letter was originally posted by Dom Alcuin Reid, the founding Prior of the Monastère Saint-Benoît in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France, on the Monastery’s website; it is reposted here with kind […]
Editor’s note: This is Part I of a two-part essay. The Nature of Faith What is the nature of faith, according to Pope Francis? The Apostle Paul calls us to believe with one’s heart and […]
To those who knew him, Roger Scruton was a philosopher. Philosophy for him had little to do with that modern, tenured, and professorial guild that trades in logicism and dismisses wisdom as mere “folk psychology.” […]
On today’s feast of the Baptism of the Lord, I have the great joy of administering this sacrament to my own newborn nephew, James Patrick. Although he won’t remember it, this will be the best […]
Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that […]
When life’s tragedies strike, people’s hearts can ache with the question: “Where was God when we needed him?” Variations on this question, infused with a heavy dose of accusation, sometimes come from the lips of […]
We drove our firstborn to the airport today. On the way out, he remarked the countryside through which the highway cut. “You can’t tell me this doesn’t evoke the Shire,” he said. He wasn’t wrong. […]
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