Weekly Update

Excommunication may seem like a mean-spirited thing to do. So why does the Church continue to do it?

Christianity is booming in Africa, with growth and endurance in the face of persecution. Perhaps the West's slowness to recognize this reality points to a moral wound.

The utopian visions of the modern West can never quite deliver: they fail to map onto a true anthropological vision of a fallen and limited humanity.

The Netherlands' approval of assisted suicide for a healthy woman due to mental suffering has reignited euthanasia debates, highlighting a shift from traditional Christian values to modern autonomy and freedom.

A polarized world is often an uncomfortable world - but it's also a world in which the Christian mission is clear. And that’s no small gift.

Within the modern West, it's less clear today than it might have been several decades ago what it means for a man to be a good man, where he should direct his hopes, and how he's meant to live.

Caring for children is a natural and excellent context for giving rather than receiving, which is an obvious goal for anyone convinced of the Christian ideal that one finds one's life by losing it.

With belief in a revelation necessarily comes belief in infallibility: without a doctrine of infallibility, belief in a revelation simply couldn’t hold together.

Fierce protests at university campus across the country beg a question: why are those protests occurring on campuses, specifically? Perhaps we first need to ask a more fundamental question: what is a university for?

News cycles tend to the ultimate and the catastrophic, and current events have headlines running at a high pitch.