The most serious challenge to the Church in our day, even among many of her leaders and scholars, is a seeming loss of confidence in the substance or relevance of key Catholic teachings. Continue Reading »
When the temptation to ally the Church with a particular political party is not resisted, it invariably leads to trouble—politically and, more importantly, evangelically. Continue Reading »
The sixteenth in a series of reports on Synod-2018. Continue Reading »
In the Virgin Mary we can identify the dispositions, qualities, and virtues we need to be truth-receivers and truth-givers, which is to say, genuine intellectuals. Continue Reading »
Wilson runs through one unpleasant experience and miserable person after another in his new collection The Hanging God. Continue Reading »
The fifteenth in a series of reports on Synod-2018. Continue Reading »
Not every kind of hope is good, let alone morally good. Continue Reading »
The fourteenth in a series of reports on Synod-2018. Continue Reading »
Education is genuinely liberal—education for freedom—only if it’s willing to conduct students away from self-love to proper objects of love. Continue Reading »
The thirteenth in a series of reports on Synod-2018. Continue Reading »
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