Last 20 Articles

A different Priestly Scandal - Michael Novak

Burning injustices rest on our consciences, and will continue to burn us until we correct them. Read more...

The Law of the Gift - Cardinal Timothy Dolan

This is a university where every classroom features the most effective audio-visual aid of them all, the crucifix and where the law of the gift is taught and practiced. Read more...

Do not be frightened - Mother Marie des Douleurs

Let us no longer dread all sorts of impressions and sensations. Read more...

The Saviour's Voice - Father George William Rutler

The earliest recording of a voice was thought to have been that of Thomas Edison in 1877 reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on his own invention. Read more...

At the Heart of the Spiritual Life - Father Timothy M. Gallagher, OMV

Father Gallagher fulfills what Ignatius desired: that is, for Christians of good will — whatever their background — to attain the ability to understand "to some extent, the different movements produced in the soul and... recognizing those that are good to admit them, and those that are bad, to reject them." Read more...

Obama devolves - Robert R. Reilly

The President has twisted immutable truths in the Constitution and Christianity into their opposites. Read more...

Waking Up Is Hard to Do - Thomas Howard

Walker Percy, like O'Connor and Waugh and a few others, has found a way to speak to the hard of hearing. Read more...

Andy Garcia and Eduardo Verastegui Talk about For Greater Glory - Tim Drake

Yesterday, journalists were given an opportunity to talk with several individuals involved in the production of the film For Greater Glory, which opens in theaters in the U.S. on June 1. Read more...

The Papacy's Private Papers - Francis X. Rocca

The cleverest thing about this imaginative exhibition in Rome's Capitoline Museums is how it plays on the darkest stereotypes of the Vatican and the Catholic Church in order to draw visitors in — and then points those visitors toward complexity and nuance that the stereotypes obscure. Read more...

A Requiem for Manners - Stephen M. Klugewicz

Today the idea that the cultivation of manners should be an essential part of one's education has been nearly lost entirely. Read more...

Meekness: The Third Lively Virtue - Anthony Esolen

We all know the account in Luke about the boy Jesus, who when he was twelve years old accompanied his parents to Jerusalem for the Passover, as was their custom. Read more...

Be a Man who Stays Focused on the Final Goal - Father Larry Richards

Men are rediscovering the importance of the spiritual life. And Father Larry Richards is helping them do it. Read more...

Offer No Resistance - Saint Francis de Sales

The chief thing I ask is that in the course of the day you should continually recollect yourself and lift your heart up to God to say a few short words telling him of your faithfulness and love. Read more...

Listen to his voice - Father George W. Rutler

A father recently bemoaned the fact that the iPod had deprived him of his teenage son. Read more...

How to Solve the Bully Problem - Father Robert Barron

It is very difficult indeed to watch the new documentary "Bully" without experiencing both an intense sadness and a feeling of helplessness. Read more...

The Premarital Sex "Test Drive" - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk

During a 2011 roundtable discussion on Fox News, guest commentator Jay Thomas argued that young people should not be too concerned when it comes to pre-marital sex, because nobody would choose to "buy a car without driving it first." Read more...

Requiem for the Tiger Nuns - Richard & Elizabeth Gerbracht

When the tiresome complaint arose again recently on a television program about the nuns of yesteryear hitting Catholic schoolchildren on the knuckles with a ruler, we undertook a nostalgic time trip back to the days when we sat in such nuns' classrooms. Read more...

Hilton Kramer & the critical temper - Roger Kimball

On the life, work, and mindset of Hilton Kramer. Read more...

On Being Virtuous in a Not-So-Virtuous World - Donald DeMarco

Virtue is understated, underappreciated, under-valuated, and misunderstood. Read more...

The Art of Living: Ethics with No Destination - Edward Sri

I was not a fan of the new companion traveling in our mini-van. Read more...

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