Modern life has all but quenched man’s heroic spirit, smothering it with lame distractions, from fantasy sports to petty internet debates, or killing it with evils like pornography. But men are called to so much […]

Church leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo have expressed misgivings at the government’s focus on constitutional reform as citizens are caught in a vortex of conflict and disease. Years of conflict have already inflicted […]

Most Catholic schoolboys study Christian heresies with philosophical rigor, carefully parsing their genesis and implications. However, it may take decades and even centuries to observe the pernicious consequences of violations of Catholic orthodoxy. Most of […]

Readings: • Ex 19:2-6a • Psa 100:1-2, 3, 5 • Rom 5:6-11 • Mt 9:36-10:8 One description of the Church that is emphasized in the documents of the Second Vatican Council is “the people of […]

Today, the Church celebrates the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The feasts, solemnities, and memorials of the Church year are not holidays the way the secular world understands the term—they are holy days, and they are […]

“I came to cast fire upon the earth.” —Luke 12:49 Fire! What single word more immediately commands people’s attention? No sane and moral person would ever consider yelling the word fire in a public place, […]