Pope Leo Speaks to the Heart, and the World Is Listening
COMMENTARY: As the saying goes, sometimes the medium is the message. Leo is radiating in word and deed the message of Christian humanism that he preaches.
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What Have We Learned in the 80 Years Since V-J Day?
COMMENTARY: On the 80th anniversary of the Allies’ victory over Japan in World War II, it is essential that we look at our moral failures and vices as well as our victories and virtues.
Winning Isn’t Everything: A Catholic View of Sports
COMMENTARY: While play, properly ordered, is a good in and of itself, it can also be a useful aid in the growth of holiness.
Truth Cannot Contradict Truth: The Scopes Trial 100 Years Later
COMMENTARY: What was true 100 years ago is true today.
Patriotism Under God: Helping Our Nation Maintain Its Divine Allegiance
COMMENTARY: The virtue of patriotism is the habit whereby we offer properly ordered love and service to our country. It is a duty of Catholic citizens to be patriotic.
When America Was Great: Celebrating the Collective Effort to Defeat Fascism in Europe
COMMENTARY: All war is a defeat for humanity, but if there ever was a war with a just cause, it was World War II. Three men in particular embodied that cause.
Overcoming Hate With Love: International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Jubilee Year
COMMENTARY: Pope St. John XXIII was central to maintaining the memory of World War II’s persecuted Jews.
Independence Day and Catholic Citizens: Patriotic Witness in Word and Deed to Truth and Justice
COMMENTARY: One of the most vital services that Catholic Christians provide to our nation is our witness to truth and the reasonableness of reason. This is especially true of our witness to the natural moral law (knowable by all who use right reason) and to the norms of social justice.
Thinking With the Mind of Christ
COMMENTARY: May we, as individuals and as communities of faith, think and act biblically.
Noncombatant Immunity and the Death of Innocents
COMMENTARY: War is always a defeat for humanity. All of us are called to be peacemakers.
