If October’s Synod on Synodality is going to contribute to the evangelization of a world sorely in need of holiness, then the Synod is going to have to take the saints far more seriously than its Working Document does. Continue Reading »
Justin Shubow joins the podcast to discuss his time as Chairman of the United States Commission of Fine Arts, as well as the future of classical design in federal architecture. Continue Reading »
For those who do the backstroke or shoot hoops at a functionally agnostic YMCA “swim and gym,” the Christ-centered history of the institution may be surprising. Some believers seek to make it better known. Continue Reading »
Opera has traditionally had little interest in Christian orthodoxy. So when composer Francis Poulenc wrote his masterpiece, Dialogues des Carmélites, the work’s celebration of heroic piety defied the secular spirit of the art form. Continue Reading »
Vigen Guroian joins the podcast to discuss his book Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination.
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In these perilous times, we all feel ill at ease. But over the last two months, our unity as people of faith has manifested itself in an outpouring of support. Continue Reading »
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., Synod-2023’s relator general, said that the Synod’s purpose was not changing Catholic teaching but “listening.” To which one must ask, “listening to what end”? Continue Reading »
Jesus’s burden is different in kind from those of the scribes and Pharisees. With Jesus, the one giving us the yoke is himself the yoke. Continue Reading »
Juliana Geran Pilon joins the podcast to discuss her new book An Idea Betrayed: Jews, Liberalism, and the American Left.
Continue Reading »Tolstoy was surely right that it means little to confess Jesus as Son of God if you ignore his commandments, but he lurched toward the opposite extreme—a deeply-felt, demanding, but ultimately thin liberal Christianity. Continue Reading »
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