Christianity and Common Sense
Can one jump down one’s own throat? This was G.K. Chesterton's reply to those who claim that anything is possible. When we exercise common...
Keeping the Republic
The most marked political tendency of the American people has been to interpret their government as a pure and simple democracy, and to shift...
Fourth Sunday of Lent: Siloam and Spiritual Blindness
Once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light – for the fruit of the light...
Briefly Testing Aristotle’s Golden Mean
“Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.” Aristotle
Scripture is full of exhortations to avoid...
What Is Heaven?
Christians agree that God invites us all to end our lives in a state of being called 'heaven'; that is, in a personal relationship...
What and Why to Read from the Current Magisterium
Over the past week, Pope Francis has issued not one but two relatively “major” documents, along with the standard fare of other routine Papal...
Queenship of Mary
The 22nd of August of the feast of the Queenship of Mary, which this year falls on a Sunday, one week after the Assumption....
The Equality Act and Its Follies
He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Genesis 5, v 2.
Last...
The Holy Rosary, the Hope of Lepanto, of Europe, of the World…
Today we celebrate Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, a feast instituted by Pope Saint Pius V in commemoration of the great victory...
Reading St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans
The letter of St. Paul to the Romans uses the same basic structure found in his other letters. It features one important aspect of...
