Whenever I speak to a crowd about the woke movement, an inevitable comment surfaces in the Q&A. With a sort of resigned sadness, parents will tell me about their teen or adult children who are now woke, uninterested in the faith of their childhood, and disdainful of those who passed it down to them.

Spiritual wisdom for Lent and throughout the year from a 16th-century classic beloved by, among others, St. Francis de Sales.

A bee is something small, but when it stings, it is a great hurt.

Faithful young priests are such a contradiction to the sexual revolution that their very presence invites the world to consider the supernatural.

Once after giving a lecture on friendship I was told I was undermining the hearers ability to have relationships with diverse people. Clarity on this issue is crucial.

Nearly every college and university in the country advertises itself as educating future "leaders." I am not as impressed as perhaps I should be.

Our schools are failing not because of what happens in the classroom, but because of what happens—or more to the point, what doesn't happen—at the dinner table. If we wish to be a serious people, then we must bolster our institutions with the power to humanize and domesticate the bedlam within us all.

How we remember the dead is significant in how we live.

Fear no one ... do not be afraid ... be afraid ... do not be afraid (see Mt 10:26-33). Our Lord seems to be giving contradictory commands.