Marriage

A Tale of Two Weddings

Even for spoiled royals, a wedding is emphatically not a private matter. Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2021

Christ the Pursuing Bridegroom

To see what the Church understands marriage to be, we must look not to headlines, but to divine revelation in Holy Scripture and the Apostolic Tradition. Continue Reading »

9 Nov 2020

Sympathy For the Devil

by Francis X. Maier

The Family Story Project attempts to “dismantle family privilege” by casting the traditional family as diseased and oppressive. Continue Reading »

31 Aug 2020

Patricia Snow (“Hawthorne’s Daughter,” January) may perhaps be unaware of St. Jerome’s error in countering Jovinian’s heresy, namely, his denigration of marriage in order to uphold the superiority of the virgin state. Snow makes Jerome’s mistake in her attempt to rationalize Rose . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2020

Hawthorne’s Daughter

by Patricia Snow

In 1891, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, was received into the Catholic Church. She was forty years old. Within a few years of her conversion she conceived a heroic ministry to destitute cancer patients at a time when cancer was believed to be contagious. She . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2020

How Christianity
Changed Singleness

by Jed W. Atkins

Americans increasingly live alone. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the single-person household is now the second-most-common living arrangement in the country, encompassing more than a quarter of Americans. Living alone is among the risk factors for loneliness and premature mortality. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2020

The Gift of Children

by Evangelicals and Catholics Together

Children are gifts. In them, we respond to Moses’s urgent imperative: Choose life! (Deut. 30:19) Men and women have always brought children into the world. To be a parent is the most natural of things. It is fundamental to what it means to be human. Yet the birth of a child is also an . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2019

The Altar’s Tears

by Cole S. Aronson

Future partnerships are regarded with suspicion after the dissolution of a first marriage.
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19 Sep 2019

Who Wants to Be a Diversity Dean?

by Mark Bauerlein

You may have seen the news on March 5, when the State of Colorado Civil Rights Commission decided to drop the action it had taken against Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado. This was not the original allegation of discrimination that the Commission had received in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 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 »