Weekly Update

Unless we can contextualize individual experience within the framework of reality, it cannot serve as the basis for debate or discourse.

Amidst the headlines, it is right still for Christians to remember that they are first citizens of heaven, not of this earth or this country.

However this plays out, we will be living through an earthquake in American social and political life.

The classical education movement shows promise across the country, and the Vatican's approval of a new PPF will bring big changes to priestly formation.

Advances in entertainment and communications technology, when unmoored from human nature and the common good, can have disunifying effects.

The Gospel isn't just a way of seeing the silver linings in life: it is a fundamental reorientation of how we engage reality.

Far from being platforms from which we can be seen, institutions exist to form us; the Vatican's palms, the suffocation of self-definition; and reasons to approach the sacrament of confession based on human nature and psychology.

Priestly vocations abound in Nigeria despite decades of persecution; reflections on secularity, moral relativism, and the uncontrollability of our lives.

Free speech; efficiency and the lost art of intentionality; the elderly as witnesses of the Gospel; and Catholic disputes over masculinity and femininity.

Media and governmental errors, along with Church scandals, have rendered many who would be inclined to trust skeptical.