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Please, stop talking about 'values'

Philip Lawler

This week I have received a political flyer aimed at "values voters," heard a fundraising pitch from...

The Catholic Gentleman: Living Authentic Manhood T…

Sam Guzman

The word gentleman has fallen into disrepute, along with the word man.

Jacob Rees-Mogg's brief guide to grammar, punctuat…

Michael Cook

Is a concern with commas really a sign of an authoritarian personality?

"I desire mercy, not sacrifice"

Mother Marie des Douleurs

Charity is universal and its obligation is always absolute.

A Warm and Loving Plenitude

Anthony Esolen

Three men and a boy were sitting round a fire.

"He warned them not to make him known"

Fr. Donald Haggerty

This preference for hiddenness, for remaining unseen, seems to have been a definite impulse of Jesus...

The Pride flag flies everywhere. But what does it …

Chad Pecknold

In graduate school at Cambridge, a group of us once played a bizarre card game one of our philosophe...

David Brooks' "Itinerarium Mentis in Deum…

Fr. Robert P. Imbelli

Almost fifty years ago, the renowned sociologist of religion, Peter Berger, wrote a short yet sugges...

Bastille Day and Other Convenient Myths

Father George W. Rutler

"Bastille Day" is the celebration of an inflated myth.

Building A Culture of Religious Freedom

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

When I sat down to write these remarks, I did it knowing that this talk will probably be the last on...

Mary Will Gather Us into the Barn

Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

What mysterious power is it that a mother has over a son that, when he confesses his guilt, she stri...

Servant of God Takashi Nagai

John Janaro

The whole life of Takashi Nagai was one of continual conversion and growth in wisdom and knowledge...

Satoko Kitahara

John Janaro

Evangelization has only begun to touch the surface of Japan's ancient culture and deep religious sen...

Literature: What every Catholic should know

Joseph Pearce

"I love this book because there s not a hint of ‘Eat your spinach’ about it. Pearce’s reading progra...

Church of the Apostles

Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman

Belief in God and belief in his Church stand on the same kind of foundation.

The Gospel is not a compendium of maxims

Father George W. Rutler

There are those who would reduce Christ to a glorified motivational speaker.

What Makes America Great?

Regis Nicoll

The Founders, and the founding document they authored, give testimony to the religious, and uniquely...

Inventing European Identity

Theodore Dalrymple

Over the portals of every national parliament or assembly should be inscribed the words "One mu...

Saint James, Patron of Pilgrims

Amy Giuliano

This alabaster statuette portrays a traveler leaning on his walking staff, as if taking a momentary ...

Has Science Run Its Course?

Regis Nicoll

One year after scientists flipped the switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicist Lawrence ...

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