“You’re a monster!” screams Madison Russell (played by Millie Bobby Brown) in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. She screams this at her mother, Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga), who has just made the decision to […]
The Church’s “summer of shame” has devastated the faithful. The McCarrick revelations, the Pennsylvania grand jury, and the Viganò testimony have sent reverberations of scandal right through the highest clerical ranks. Catholics in the pews […]
On the Readings for August 19, 2018 […]
Confessions, observations, and animadversions on this, that, and the other. […]
How I learned that the best kind of prayer is thanksgiving, the best kind almsgiving is thanksgiving, and the best kind of abstinence is thanksgiving. […]
Today, we are deluged with information, voices, images, and pitches. It’s not a matter of tuning out, but one of fine tuning our minds to […]
How I learned that reading and studying the Catechism, Church doctrine and dogma, and theology are not ultimately about knowing things or facts but about knowing […]
Society has reached the sad point that many people think themselves brave or controversial for stating an opinion shared by everyone in the room. […]
“Do not read a book, ever, just so that you can say clever things about it,” advises the prolific author and translator, “Read books for […]
Islam stands as a judgment on the nations. It also stands as a judgment on thought itself. […]
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