Christian” does point to a relationship between the old covenant and the new covenant, it fails to convey what that ...

Our Catholic moral tradition has always recognized a hierarchy of moral gravity. Not all wrongs are the same. We know this instinctively. Some are the result of human weakness and flawed speech; ...

Fr. Mario Portella is right that the postliberalism of Carl Schmitt is incompatible with Catholic teaching, but not every postliberal project is Schmittian. Some can be defended within the Catholic ...

In an era in which America is becoming an increasingly anti-Catholic place to live, Catholics desperately need to be supported by a strong Catholic community in order to live out their faith. For some ...

Around 2020 I started writing satirical Catholic news. At first, it was just a personal writing exercise, a light project to sharpen my skills and maybe help cope with the craziness of that time. But ...

They have dispatched the monk to Rome. Said quickly, it sounds like a promotion. Said slowly, with the facts laid out in order, it sounds like what it is: the quiet destruction of a scholar’s life by ...

For a few years in the 1980s, when I was a graduate student at UCLA and had no stipend, I lived in a tenement near the La Brea Tar Pits and paid $105 a month for a studio apartment. It had no kitchen, ...

It is almost 30 years since my book Literary Converts was published by Harper Collins in the United Kingdom and subsequently by Ignatius Press in the United States. It was praised by A.N. Wilson as ...

It was in early 1943, while the war in Europe continued to rage, that a young woman named Simone Weil, who would not live to see its end, set down a series of reflections on the spiritual renewal that ...

The National Catholic Register carried a story September 3 about Anglican cathedrals in the United Kingdom increasingly renting out their spaces for pop concerts and discos. Many justify the practice ...

I dropped my youngest son off August 22 as a freshman at Rochester Institute of Technology. I couldn’t help reflecting that—almost to the day—49 years earlier I started as a freshman at St. Mary’s ...

Getting married and forming a family is a great victory these days, especially in what economist Nicholas Eberstadt calls the “global flight from family.” Among the starkest statistics is that a ...