Sunday, November 30, 2025

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...