“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of wartime,” says Captain Charles Ryder in Evelyn Waugh’s novel, Brideshead Revisited. “These memories, which are my life—for we possess nothing certain […]
Amazing supernatural events sometimes occur during the lives of the saints. But it is rare for miracles to be so frequent in an individual saint’s life that one could write a book simply about those […]
That Jesus taught His disciples to pray for the coming of the kingdom (Mt 6:9–13; Lk 11:2–4) long before they could fully understand its true nature has long intrigued me. Clearly, Jesus intends to lead […]
When framing out a room, everyone knows that the first corner must be square, or else the second will be off at the far end of the wall. Even if the first corner is imperceptibly off, […]
I am by no means a free speech absolutist. In an article at Postliberal Order a couple of years ago, I set out the natural law position on the issue, noting that the teleology or final cause of […]
Although Israel is not central to Principles of Catholic Theology: Book 4, On the Church, Mary, Nature and Grace, a new collection of essays by prominent theologian Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP, the book offers two […]
As Tom Holland’s 2021 book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World reveals, in every past civilization (even our Greco-Roman forbearers), women were either commodities, guarded by their families as dynastic assets, or simply booty, “sex […]
In his statement commenting on Senator Richard Durbin’s decision to decline a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich admonished U.S. Catholics to reflect on a homily that Pope John Paul […]
Why are there so many statues of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux in Catholic churches? Obviously, crucifixes and other representations of Jesus Christ are the focus of attention in any Catholic church. It also makes sense […]
Normally, when considering the pastoral care of a parish, one thinks of celebrating Mass, particularly on Sundays, as well as the hearing of confessions. There are also baptismal and marriage preparations. Likewise, there are various […]
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