Southern California. I recently returned for my first visit there in nearly twenty years. Why do I love the West Coast? Let me count the ways. Sweeping vistas, energized pop culture, and the sense of […]
“But Jesus remained silent”— Matthew 26:63 Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), affirmed the doctrine of the social kingship of Christ. He thereby kicked back against the tide of the modern political […]
“I held my mother and siblings in a warm, tearful embrace of hope,” Pauline (not her real name) recalls. She pauses, offering a wan and ashy smile as the memory of November 23, 2016, washes […]
Twenty years ago, a small social media platform called Twitter was launched into public life. Few imagined that a service built around brief updates would become one of the principal architects of modern consciousness through […]
The 1991 “perfect storm,” made famous by the movie of that name starring George Clooney, resulted from a rare collision of three distinct weather systems that converged to create an exceptionally massive and destructive storm. […]
1Editor’s note: This homily was preached on the Seventeenth Sunday, July 26, 2026, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. Last Sunday, we considered the centrality of grace in the Christian life and […]
I thought of Jeff Gardner’s Landscapes of Grace during a recent mellow evening ramble with my teenage son. I thought of it again last weekend as I slogged uphill on a hot day, with the […]
Editor’s note: The following essay was penned by a participant in the Catholic apostolate of Courage. Author’s note: I did not read the official response by Courage International before writing this essay, and thus arrived at […]
Faced with the urgency of “safeguarding the dignity of the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,” Pope Leo addresses his encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, not only “to all the Catholic faithful,” but also “to all Christians […]
The bishop said “we will never submit” to “the culture of death” as the Catholic diocese and religious sisters argue that their faith prevents them from participating in physician-assisted suicide. […]
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