Philosophers Are Only Human
COMMENTARY: Bertrand Russell may have been a great philosopher, but he doesn’t seem to have been deeply reflective.
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‘Of’ the World and ‘In’ It: When Politics Clouds Our Catholic Faith
COMMENTARY: Dominican Father Bede Jarrett’s 1922 essay rings especially true today.
An Atheist Who Tells Us Something Important About the Catholic Church
COMMENTARY: Even in his error, H.L. Mencken provides real insight.
Becoming Catholic Is Worth the Effort, and Worth the Wait
COMMENTARY: Whatever your reason for wanting to become Catholic, run with it. It’s your road sign pointing you in the right direction.
The Spirit of the St. Patrick’s Battalion
The Batallón de San Patricio of the 19th century gives us an example of faithfulness to remember.
What I’ve Learned From the Pope’s ‘Apostolate of the Ear’
COMMENTARY: Listening is not a passive attitude — listening is an active work, an apostolate that we do with intention
What Michael Crichton’s False ‘Lost World’ Gospel Tells Us About Ourselves
COMMENTARY: How many people who claim they think for themselves think any differently from the people around them?
Evelyn Waugh, Ronald Knox and the ‘Great Brotherhood’ of Ash Wednesday
COMMENTARY: ‘The little black smudge on the forehead,’ says Evelyn Waugh, seals Catholics as ‘members of a great brotherhood who can both rejoice and recognize the limits of rejoicing’
The Three Kinds of Atheists, and How to Respond to Them
COMMENTARY: Atheism is generally the expression of a moral attitude more than a real intellectual conviction based on evidence thought through.
G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown: ‘The Foulest Crime Feels Lighter After Confession’
COMMENTARY: We’re the one criminal we can catch and keep safe and sane under his own hat by repentance, and we do that especially by repentance enacted in the confessional, and the graces God gives those who confess their sins.
