The Severe Truth of Lent
As Lent begins again, and with it, the desire to follow Christ on the way to Calvary, I am fascinated, as all Western civilization has been for two millennia, by the Cross at the end of that uphill climb.
As Lent begins again, and with it, the desire to follow Christ on the way to Calvary, I am fascinated, as all Western civilization has been for two millennia, by the Cross at the end of that uphill climb.
On June 8, 1978, Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn ascended to the podium at Harvard University and delivered a commencement address that was the perfect antithesis of political correctness.
Perhaps one of the most difficult teachings of the Church is about herself—that the Church is holy.
Jesus is the only final safety we have in the world.
The Gospel witness of the Sisters of Life reminds us that, amid all the talk of what's wrong with the Church, there is an eternal goodness that will last forever.
While a book like John Rist's is diminished by its flaws, it's not entirely unfair about our current moment.
How precisely might someone go about showing that he had authority, mastery, and power over substances? Bear with me: this is an important question.
In the period immediately preceding the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council and, even more so, in the post-Conciliar period, the Church's canonical discipline was called into question at its very foundations.
In an age that prioritizes mammon over God, how many Christians will take up that courage?