Transcendent Hope
We’ve gotten pretty confident, as a culture, about what we think we need and don’t need for free, happy, fulfilling lives.
Capacitated for the Divine
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.
False Self-Construction
God put us together as individuals who belong to communities: we are individual as well as social, intrinsically and necessarily.
Dogmatic Identity
The real campus speech crisis isn't censorship - it's the replacement of open inquiry with dogmatic political identities that discourage genuine dialogue.
Love and Empathy
“These women are practicing empathy in the extreme.” That’s what this New York Times piece has to say about one community of nuns, who rise in the middle of the night to pray for mothers.
Caesar and God
A bishop of a New York diocese as well as four communities of religious sisters have filed a lawsuit against New York government officials, in response to the passing of a law that would force them to participate in the process of physician-assisted suicide.
Liberty in Christ
The future of bioethics ought to be founded on America's promises, one author argues: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (for physician and patient alike).
Labor and Creation
Is a world in which humanity is freed from labor a world we want to inhabit?
That They May Be One
Why is it so important that we, as a Church, pursue unity? And what kind of unity are we really looking for?
Unity in Truth
In a recent address, Pope Leo highlighted what a great gift the Eastern Churches are, noting that they offer Catholics a rich, and important, diversity.