The Real Work of the Church

by Seth Hedman

We need to return to seeing the work of the church as primarily hands-on, in-person work. Continue Reading »

25 Oct 2022

A Not-So-Secular Age

by John Wilson

 I don’t know for sure what the future, even the “near future,” holds, but I do know that—for the moment, at least—we do not remotely live in a “secular age.” Continue Reading »

25 Mar 2022

Men Are at War with God

by Mary Eberstadt

Solzhenitsyn famously defined the principal trait of the twentieth century in four words: “Men have forgotten God.” So far, the twenty-first century might be summarized in six: Men are at war with God. Awakened from agnostic slumber by new forms of temptation, chiefly the sexual revolution, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2022

Keep Christ at the Center

by Samuel J. Aquila

A culture that does not have faith in God and his creation is a culture that will not hold.  Continue Reading »

24 Aug 2020

A Modern Mendicant

by Andrew Doran

Richard Lamar Ochiltree wandered the streets of Washington, D.C., for several years, mostly along a few blocks in Foggy Bottom, near the eastern shore of the Potomac. He monitored comings and goings at the State Department, George Washington University, the World Bank, and other agencies. Rick was . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

Notre-Dame de Paris, by Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855)

by William Flesch

Notre Dame is quite old: one will see it perhapsStill bury that Paris it saw at its birth;But in a few thousand years Time will cause to collapse(As wolves do to cattle) this carcass to earth,Twist its tendons of iron, then with a deaf toothChew its bones made of rock, which fills us with ruth.From . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2020

Christingle

by Iain Twiddy

The power-cut candle’s wobbly precisionushers the church hall back into vision.We assembled them on a mess table:first you gouged out a hollow in the middle,then wound a crêpe strip around. Then four sticksof raisins—the wealth of heaven, finger-pricks—and the candle planted in its . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2020

Scandal in South Carolina

by Christopher Tollefsen

Over and over again our bishops' failures of judgment have been ignored as “private” issues. Continue Reading »

6 Aug 2019

Belief Limbo

by Ronald W. Dworkin

In September 2017, the Public Religion Research Institute published a study of religion in America that showed a tripling of the religiously unaffiliated since 1990, from 8 percent to 24 percent of the population. The majority of the unaffiliated call themselves secular; a quarter of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2019

Faith Amid Corruption

by R. R. Reno

The Catholic Church in the West is full of corruption—financial, sexual, and spiritual. We are forced to face this hard reality, not the least because the weak pontificate of Pope Francis offers so little of substance. The corruption that afflicts us does not arise from overpowering lusts. Our . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019