Augustine admits in Confessions that when he was young, he did not like the Scriptures; he found the language ugly and uninspiring. He preferred Cicero and Virgil. Worse yet, some things in the Scriptures caused him to think Christianity was…
The 250,000 Catholics who serve in the U.S. military might like a word with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. His pastor, Doug Wilson, founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, and whom Hegseth invited to speak at the Pentagon,…
Almost one year in, Pope Leo’s vision for his pontificate is still coming into focus. But there are a few key characteristics that are worth noting. First, and most obviously, Leo is not Francis II. For much of Francis’s pontificate, the air…
The Catholic bishops of Scotland strongly condemned the Scottish Parliament’s rejection of conscience protections in a controversial bill that would legalize assisted suicide. The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland expressed deep disappointment…
Friedrich Nietzsche is notorious for his theory of the Übermensch, the superior man who rises above the constraints of morality and mediocrity. But his theory of the “last man” has proven to be far more prophetic – and relevant. A kind of…
The New York Times reported the words, but the Wall Street Journal didn’t. When Bam Adebayo, two days ago, was asked to describe the moment when he scored 83 points in an NBA game, second only to Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points, he said, “Man, I…
Catholic Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland has once again condemned Oregon’s “Abortion Provider Appreciation Day,” calling it a moral tragedy and a profound sign of spiritual blindness in a message revisiting his pastoral teaching on…
I’ll get right to the point. Leigh Snead’s new book Infertile but Fruitful is one of the finest personal testimonies I’ve read in the past decade. It’s a “simple” story in the best sense: concise, intimate, utterly frank, and memorable. It…
In one of the great ironies of linguistic history, the English word “bedlam,” suggesting frenzy, madness, chaos, and noise, comes from what was then the common British pronunciation of the sacred name Bethlehem, in the Hospital of Saint Mary in…
Lou Holtz, whose lengthy football coaching career included an undefeated championship season at the University of Notre Dame and who spoke regularly about his Catholic faith, died on March 4 at age 89. Holtz’s death was announced by his family…
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