Essay
Christ, the Eternal High Priest, and the meaning of priestly celibacy
It is the Church’s hope and desire that her celibate clergy (and her consecrated religious, too) would show forth to the world, in a unique […]
Jesus Christ
The Dispatch
Can Catholics be Buddhist? New book compares Jesus and Buddha
Saying that Buddhism and Christianity lead to the same place,” ways Dr. Anthony E. Clark, author of Catholicism and Buddhism: The Contrasting Lives and Teachings of […]
The Dispatch
How the Christian life is enlivened by the Holy Spirit, “the Lord and Giver of life”
In the coming of the Spirit and in His on-going advents in the Church’s life, most especially through the Sacred Liturgy, the Kingdom becomes a […]
General
“Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creatures”
What happened in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary can and must happen in our own lives. Each of us has received the Holy […]
The Dispatch
Suffering, supplication, and the necessity of “praying always”
St. Monica prayed for the conversion of her son Augustine for thirty years. How many of us would expend that kind of energy for a […]
Columns
Sanity and the Church
Cultural radicalism rejects tradition, and therefore rejects everything except immediate impressions, abstract ideology, and naked will. That’s no way to build anything solid, let alone […]
Features
Youth, liturgy, and the need for true worship
Liturgy – like the Faith it celebrates – never admits of an “erector-set” approach; good liturgy, true liturgy is received, not fabricated, and it takes […]
Essay
Female ordination advocates ignore theological truth, focus on power
Those who insist that women ought to be ordained as Catholic priests do not simply want to serve the Church—they want to change the Church. […]
The Dispatch
The temptation and the challenge of reading “Gaudete et exsultate”
Whatever else there is to say about the document and regardless of one’s personal, spiritual, or intellectual disposition toward Pope Francis, it is fair to […]
Essay
The wounds of Christ and the doubt of Thomas
It is not an accident that Thomas comes to faith, not by simply seeing an apparition of Jesus, but only after being instructed to pay […]