You wouldn’t expect evangelical Christians to have carefully followed the life of Fulton Sheen, the beloved Catholic clergyman who once hosted one of the most popular television shows in America. For context, Sheen’s 28-minute program, which…
In August 2026, America Magazine reported that “the liturgy wars are back (and never really left).” The fight Catholics have been having on and off – regarding the Traditional Latin Mass versus the Novus Ordo, Traditionis Custodes versus…
Everyone who knows anything about Pope John Paul II’s “theology of the body” “knows” that it is about sex. Anyone who knows more than a little about the theology of the body understands that to say it is about sex is a bit like saying the book…
Sitting atop his ivory wall, the pedantic egghead Humpty Dumpty tells Alice that any word he uses means “just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different…
Fulton Sheen, officially to be declared “blessed” in a few days, began his wonderful book Three to Get Married with these four sentences: It takes three to make Love in Heaven – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It takes three for Heaven to make…
Earlier this year a meta-analysis in Advances in Psychological Science found a correlation between having a heightened sense of self-righteousness and what is called “third-party punishment,” meaning punishing someone for a perceived infraction,…
Earlier this year a meta-analysis in Advances in Psychological Science found a correlation between having a heightened sense of self-righteousness and what is called “third-party punishment,” meaning punishing someone for a perceived infraction,…
In the pilot episode of the old television show The Waltons, the six Walton children have gathered outdoors in the cold and the snow, where a lady from a religious charity is handing out Christmas presents to the littler ones. The presents have…
In 1896, Episcopal clergyman John Byron Diman founded St. George’s School in Newport, R.I. It became one of the so-called Saint Grottlesex schools, that name being a portmanteau of St. George’s, St. Mark’s, St. Paul’s, Groton, and Middlesex:…
With many members of the Gen Z cohort (b. 1997-2012) coming of age and entering public life, it behooves older generations to understand them better. I can recall the many essays, books, and movies examining my own generation, the millennials…
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