Weekly Update

The persecution of Christians should really come as no surprise to us. Jesus promised it. He told us we could count on it.

An orientation to a larger, cosmic order, therefore, isn’t just a nice thing to have – it’s pertinent to the most immediate and urgent questions of the day.

In commemoration of St. Carlo Acutis’s feast day, EWTN remembers his last days in the hospital where he endured a brief battle with leukemia.

October is “Respect Life Month” for Catholics, and on that theme, First Things published two pieces that characterize the “terrible coarsening” that has arisen in American culture around that issue.

Last weekend, for the first time in nearly two decades, the Holy Father made a four-day apostolic journey to France. His visit stunned the country.

True freedom of thought does not mean freedom from influence, but freedom to be formed by a tradition that enables us to recognize and choose what is true.

The Church should breathe with her two lungs - East and West - making room for two traditions that, together, help us to see the full mystery of Jesus Christ.

We have human souls; and the only thing that can really satisfy the deepest longings of a human soul is another person – a human person, or a divine one.

It’s less interesting to appear smart than to become wise; it’s less exhilarating to learn how to pick apart an argument than it is to learn how to understand and live it.