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Pope Francis’ Letter to Parish Priests: Repairing Rifts, Grounding Vision, and Cultivating Fraternity
COMMENTARY: Parish priests, after years of pointed criticisms from the Holy Father, will appreciate the kind words in his letter, but they might be less enthusiastic about his call to become ‘missionaries of synodality.’
When Abortion Zealotry and Hostility to Conscience Collide
COMMENTARY: Abortion advocates would think nothing of using the power of the federal government’s purse to force all hospitals to provide abortions in their ERs, or go out of business. We have been warned.
The Return of the Canonized Popes
COMMENTARY: The upsurge in canonizations in recent decades is a reflection of the reality that another age of persecution is now underway.
Thank You, Bill Maher, But Your Critique of Hollywood’s Depravity Didn’t Go Far Enough
COMMENTARY: Pedophilia is baked into the Sexual Revolution.
May Day: the Socialist Worker vs. St. Joseph the Worker
COMMENTARY: For the best model for workers, look not to a man named Marx but to a carpenter named Joseph.
Against Cosmic Melancholia
COMMENTARY: The intelligence and imagination that created Voyager 1, and that has kept us in contact with our ‘most distant emissary,’ testify to the spiritual nature of human beings.
St. John Henry Newman, Adam Smith and Conscience
COMMENTARY: Has our inner voice discerning between right and wrong gone silent?
The Reason of Mary Wollstonecraft: Championing Women and Their Moral Formation
Ultimately, she placed her hope not in human reason, which she well knew was fallible, but in God’s eternal reason and his promises.