We have reached such an extraordinary degree of political derangement within Catholic discourse in the U.S. that twelve bishops praying over the President of the United States now constitutes a scandal requiring public apologies and […]
I taught in fine seminary programs at the beginning and end of my full-time teaching career, with stints at Catholic colleges and universities in between. I continue to teach part-time for the college seminary of […]
I first encountered Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) through her husband. I was a new student at a college in South Carolina when a friend pressed a copy of Shadow of the Almighty (1958) into my hands […]
Pope Leo’s fine homilies and speeches during his recent apostolic journey to France have been amply applauded and extensively commented upon. His homilies at the Place de la Concorde and at Lourdes, his addresses to […]
On September 26, Cardinal Robert McElroy delivered a speech titled “A Social Contract for the Digital Age” at St. Anselm’s Abbey School in Washington, D.C. The talk summarized how the concept of social contract needs […]
There is no shortage of recent literature across the political spectrum warning of the profound cultural crisis confronting the West and the erosion of the moral assumptions that once bound society together. Douglas Murray writes […]
In centuries past, the great missionaries of the Church—many now canonized saints—traveled to the far ends of the earth to bring Christ to those the Church once called pagans. The dangers were not exaggerated. Months […]
Virginia voters are being asked to support two changes in the state constitution. Both are on the far frontier of the sexual revolution. And Bishop Michael Francis Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington is leading […]
Some weeks ago, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation demonstrated exactly why historical memory requires deliberate protection when its internal guidance instructed journalists to avoid independently describing 9/11 as a “terrorist attack.” This followed a decades-old CBC […]
“Not that remorse did not oppose temptation; A little she strove, and much repented, And whispering ‘I will ne’er consent’—consented.” — Lord George Gordon Byron, Don Juan This is not a column about remembering September 11, […]
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