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Harrison Butker’s Speech Wasn’t for Us

Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

Consider a twenty-eight-year-old family man, a devoted Catholic, a handsome, celebrated NFL kicker, invited to offer words of encouragement for twenty-two-year-olds finishing college at a Catholic institution. He knows...

Morbid Safetyism

Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

In the spring of 2003, I was in my third year of graduate school and expecting my third baby. One day, I ran into a fellow student whom I...