Do We Really Love the Poor? Pope Leo Offers 8 Questions to Help Us Find Out
‘The Church is fully the bride of the Lord,’ says the Holy Father, ‘only when she is the sister of the poor.’
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How an Augustinian Pope Will Show Us How to Love Christ Together
COMMENTARY: Rooted in the Rule of St. Augustine, Pope Leo XIV brings a communal and missionary spirit to the papacy — shaped by a lifelong formation in Augustinian life.
Why I Want the Next Pope to Call the Church Back to Its Mission
COMMENTARY: Drawing on the best of the Francis papacy, our next pope needs to be an Evangelii Gaudium pope more than a synodality pope.
A God-Oriented Vision of Chastity
COMMENTARY: For the great thinkers of the Catholic tradition, ‘to be human is to exist with the sense of an absence to be filled.’
Understanding the Church’s Laws Is the Antidote to ‘Zombie Catholicism’
COMMENTARY: A hollow adherence to rules weakens faith, but when Church teachings are properly understood, they free us to live in a ‘law of love.’
Resurrecting Catholic Higher Education
COMMENTARY: It seems like the path to Catholic and liberal arts education is to hunker down at high-quality but tiny colleges.
Whose Reform? Which Catholicism?
BOOK REVIEW: A Review of Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s ‘True and False Reform’
As John Paul II Taught Us, Opposition to War Is a Pro-Life Principle
COMMENTARY: With war again rampant, what lessons should we draw from the pro-life Pope’s unflinching opposition to the Iraq War 20 years ago?
Getting the Order of Treatment Right in the ‘Field Hospital’ of the Catholic Church
COMMENTARY: As the hymn ‘There Is a Balm in Gilead’ reminds us, we are in need of not only acceptance, but healing.
A Listening — and Obeying — Church
COMMENTARY: God has spoken definitively in the Person of Jesus Christ; our task is to hear that Word and speak from it.
