Learning to Discern Blessings From Curses
COMMENTARY: Humility helps us to recognize a blessing, while pride often sees a blessing as a curse.
Latest 
Search
The Problem With Potential
COMMENTARY: Life’s specific rules dispose and urge a person to become fulfilled in a way that is in accord with his God-given destiny.
Fiat of Free Assent: The Annunciation and Mary’s Obedience
Obedience is not incompatible with freedom and can easily be conjoined with it.
Reading Obituaries and the Meaning of My Life
Personal authenticity is what endows our life with meaning, not material possessions.
Sigrid Undset — A Catholic Woman for Our Time
COMMENTARY: The gifted Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset, by any standard, was a most extraordinary person.
Students, Remember Life Is a Series of Commencements
COMMENTARY: Patience and discipline are absolutely essential for a true education.
Alice Von Hildebrand: The Passing of a Tigress
COMMENTARY: Alice von Hildebrand was a woman of iron conviction.
William Stafford, the March for Life and the Power of Poetry
COMMENTARY: Stafford’s ‘Traveling Through the Dark’ draws attention to three factors that abortion advocates persist in denying.
Christmas Bells Ring Hopeful Notes Amid a Weary World
COMMENTARY: Longfellow’s 1863 Civil War-era poem reflects the resilience of the human spirit and packs power today.
What St. Paul’s Momentous Trip to Athens Tells Us Today
COMMENTARY: The apostle’s sermon in the Areopagus was one of Christendom’s greatest missionary achievements.
