Weekly Update

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.

We’ve gotten pretty confident, as a culture, about what we think we need and don’t need for free, happy, fulfilling lives.

The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes recently announced that Saint Bernadette’s relics will once again tour the United States, after a hugely positive response to their last pilgrimage in 2022.

God put us together as individuals who belong to communities: we are individual as well as social, intrinsically and necessarily.

The real campus speech crisis isn't censorship - it's the replacement of open inquiry with dogmatic political identities that discourage genuine dialogue.