This essay is excerpted and adapted from comments delivered on April 29 at the Scala Foundation's conference "Art, the Sacred, and the Common Good."

In small things, if one pays close enough attention to them, can often be seen wider trends.

"You needn't be so stubborn, sir," says the officer. "We're not asking you to adore Decius. 

The destruction of England’s monasteries was carried out in two phases.

Your time on earth is fixed, and constantly diminishing — take life and death seriously.

The pro-life movement is rife with stories of former pro-abortion advocates who had a change of heart and became pro-life champions.

Some algorithm somewhere has decided that I'm undereducated, for regularly I receive via my internet server invitations to join masters' courses at universities — at considerable expense to me, be it added.

I love a good cemetery, and cemeteries do not come much better than the one in Highgate in London, which I visited recently while staying nearby.

It's a weekday evening.  We've just had a great dinner.  And now, relaxed and comfortable in our family room, we tune in to the latest war coverage from Ukraine.

No matter how far from the light we think we are, we should hold fast to the certainty that God will never abandon us.