Secularism, Security, & ‘Civilizational Erasure’

Unless and until a critical mass of Europeans recognizes that woke secularism cannot provide a firm cultural foundation for either self-governing countries or the European Union, Europe will continue to flail about seeking a viable future.

German Bishops, Over the Cliff

On Oct. 30, the German bishops’ conference announced the publication of a text by the bishops’ Commission on Schools and Education.

Rome and the Church in the U.S.

Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, who confirmed my father, was a pugnacious Irishman with a taste for shocking people via undiplomatic language.

Books to Read This Christmas

Here are 11 suggestions of books to consider gifting that entertain, inform, and open new horizons of understanding.

‘Dignitatis Humanae’ Changing History

On Dec. 7, 1965, Pope Paul solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, known by its Latin incipit (opening words) as “Dignitatis humanae.” The council thereby turbocharged the Catholic Church’s transformation into the world’s premier institutional defender of basic human rights.

Sharing Love and Hope: Jesus is Truly Alive!

As a Catholic missionary living in Williamsburg for four years, I often ask myself: What about the Church? Is the Church reaching these young people? If not, why not?

Bringing the Youth Closer to Christ

Being the president of the Jornada de Vida Cristiana youth movement in the Diocese of Brooklyn has been a huge part of my life.

Sportsmanship & Our Season of Discontents

The deterioration of our games is part and parcel of the deterioration of our culture. And as politics is downstream from culture, end-zone ridiculousness and similar self-aggrandizing debaucheries in other forms of entertainment have inevitably leaked into politics like a poison.