The Communion Question
How are we to understand a bishop's decision to bar a politician from receiving Communion through a Catholic lens?
Missing Standards
Unless we can contextualize individual experience within the framework of reality, it cannot serve as the basis for debate or discourse.
A Timely Letter to Mr. Diognetus
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.
A Leak and an Earthquake
However this plays out, we will be living through an earthquake in American social and political life.
Classical Education and Priestly Formation
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.
Information Formation
Advances in entertainment and communications technology, when unmoored from human nature and the common good, can have disunifying effects.
Not Just "Some Good News"
The Gospel isn't just a way of seeing the silver linings in life: it is a fundamental reorientation of how we engage reality.
Institutional Formation
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.
Fidelity amidst Persecution
Priestly vocations abound in Nigeria despite decades of persecution; reflections on secularity, moral relativism, and the uncontrollability of our lives.
Free the Speech
Free speech; efficiency and the lost art of intentionality; the elderly as witnesses of the Gospel; and Catholic disputes over masculinity and femininity.