I remember when senior officials from the then-newly created Secretariat for Communication of the Holy See—later restyled the “Dicastery” for Communication—came to do a meet-and-greet at The Thing That Used To Be Vatican Radio. It […]
A centerpiece of the much-derided opening ceremonies at the Paris Olympics has rippled the pond of an all-too-common Catholic complacence. Catholics are sadly used to being led like lambs to the slaughter on the altar […]
This is “NFP Week” (July 21st-27th), which means there will inevitably be a lot of online discourse and discussion about Natural Family Planning (NFP), contraception, and how humans, in a limited capacity, interact with the […]
George Weigel’s recent essay titled “Why Just War Theory Always Matters” underscores the abiding importance of that principle. Just War Theory (JWT) is essential to Catholic (and other) public officials seeking to operate in an […]
It is impossible not to admire the resilience and fighting spirit with which Donald Trump responded—literally within moments—to the failed attempt to take his life. And that he is among the luckiest of politicians is […]
It turns out that “shitposting” is a technical term. There’s a great literature, approaching a whole subfield of academic communications studies, treating the practice of tossing cheap and easy provocations into digital space in order […]
Whatever else it managed to accomplish, Norah O’Donnell’s 60 Minutes interview with Pope Francis, aired on May 19, obliterated that much-lauded program’s reputation for hard-hitting investigative journalism. The questions posed touched on none of the […]
The news is chockful of campus protests, commencement walk-outs, devastated libraries, and shouting matches on the college lawns that traditionally represent solemn respites from exterior storms, where students read, ponder, and serenely stroll to their […]
A few years ago on YouTube, there was a brief and fascinating fad for “tensegrity tables.” Tensegrity is a portmanteau combining “tensional” and “integrity,” and refers to structures whose parts are held together by a […]
“Texas Bishop Taking on Greg Abbott Gets Pope Francis’ Protection” is the curious title of an April 30th article in Newsweek. Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso needs “protection” from Greg Abbott? Are there Texas […]
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