My father grew up in dairy country in southern Minnesota. He was raised on butter churned by a neighbor and mayonnaise blended by his mother until she died when he was twelve and thereafter by a kind neighbor lady. Dad’s people were poverty…
By The Stream Published on August 19, 2025 Jonathan Pokluda, author of Your Story Has a Villain, shares his personal journey through Scripture to properly understand the spiritual forces warring among us.…
As political divisions widen across the American right on topics ranging from the proper conduct of economic policy to the United States’ relationship with the rest of the world, considerable attention has been given to the ensemble of ideas…
Like President Donald Trump, I grew up in Queens, N.Y. I bet he also spent his fair share of time on the subway, at least when he was young. One of the things that fascinated me as a boy was the “third rail,” the high-powered circuit that snaked…
According to a report released yesterday by the Catholic nonprofit American Life League, Planned Parenthood (PP) affiliates based in pro-life states annually take in close to half a billion dollars from various sources, including millions in…
Catholic social teaching insists on the dignity of every human person and the primacy of the common good. This includes solidarity with those suffering. Yet solidarity does not mean tolerating social disorder or abandoning public…
The Archbishop of Toulouse has appointed a new chancellor after widespread opposition to his earlier choice of a priest convicted of sexually assaulting a minor. But while Archbishop Guy de Kerimel apologized to victims of sexual abuse for…
Social conservatives have long recognized the civilizational value of the quotidian work of parenthood. Analogously, we ought to recognize that it is in the small acts of local participation that societies thrive or languish. Even seemingly…
The French polymath Blaise Pascal wrote in his famous “memorial” about his “night of fire”: “The God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob – not of the philosophers and scholars.” We can understand this desire not to turn the personal God in…
seechung/iStock/Getty Images Plus Christians are increasingly being persecuted across India, often under the guise of preventing them from forcing or inducing Hindus to convert, despite the country’s constitutional guarantee of religious…
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