A Heroic Example: Cal Ripken Jr. September 25, 2025 America needs the example of a real hero: I give you Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
Let’s Make America Serious Again September 17, 2025 War is raging in Ukraine, a beleaguered, brutalized country that looks to the United States for support in its struggle...
Is It Time to Move Beyond ‘Synoding’? September 10, 2025 Assuming that the synodal process is not an end in itself and recognizing that the synodal process of 2021-2024 has...
Ukraine and a Peace Worthy of the Name September 4, 2025 Pope Leo XIV’s spiritual lodestar is St. Augustine. In his first months in office, the Holy Father summoned the Church...
Unseen Sacrifices in An Age of Martyrdom August 27, 2025 Robert Royal and I have been friends, colleagues, and co-conspirators for nigh on four decades.
Meeting the World to Convert the World August 20, 2025 Vatican II did not call the Church to just “meet the modern world.” The council called the Church to convert...
A Rahnerian Surprise: Rahner’s Dual Nature August 13, 2025 Karl Rahner, SJ (1904-1984), one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century, is a favorite whipping boy...
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate July 30, 2025 “Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” was printed on the punch cards that fed data into IBM computers in the...
On the Centenary of Flannery O’Connor July 24, 2025 How appropriate that Flannery O’Connor should have been born on the solemnity of the Annunciation: the liturgical feast celebrating the...
‘We’ the People Look To ‘America 250’ July 17, 2025 That national civic renewal will begin when, one by one, “We, the People” rebuild the link between freedom and virtue;...