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.
A Matter of Trust
Media and governmental errors, along with Church scandals, have rendered many who would be inclined to trust skeptical.
Ancient Realities, Modern War
Ancient narratives and historical realities are guiding Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine; "solo polyamory"; trust in God.
The Daily Existential Crossroads
Christians stand daily at the existential crossroads, recognizing that the choice between life and good, death and evil lies not just in the world around us but within our own hearts.
War and Penitence
St. James responds to the invasion of Ukraine; an Ash Wednesday dedicated to peace; a model of Christian joy in Nagasaki; the feast of a chair.