Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

The Catholic Church firmly holds that belief in God can be justified through reason.

I had served as a priest for three years. But I learned that I had never validly received the gift of the sacrament of baptism, and therefore had never validly received confirmation, the Eucharist, or ordination to the priesthood.

The general lack of conviction about authentic Catholicism has hobbled the Church in speaking prophetically during the public unrest and the global pandemic.

Traditional Catholicism offers something all people crave: a sense of identity. This sense of identity reinforces their Christian faith and liberates them from the typical insecurities of more mainstream Catholics. Having truly removed themselves from the general culture, they will be able to handle being a countercultural minority when the time requires it.

Attacks on a healthy society at the macro level — the congealing of economic and political power in a minority elite, for example — inevitably cripple the family on a micro level and result in a poisoned civic life. Which is where we are now.

Divorce is a dirty, evil business. But nothing in that carnage grieves me as deeply as when the agents of the Catholic Church are complicit in the dismantling of Catholic families.

A series about the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church: its origins, characters, causes, and reforms. Host Karna Lozoya interviews bishops, survivors, reporters, lawyers, social workers, and many more, to help navigate a systemic problem that has plagued the modern church for at least 70 years.

Brenton Tarrant faces his victims in court before going to jail for life.

"Those who say that Karl Marx," states Dr. Paul Kengor, author of The Devil and Karl Marx, "was somehow doing Christian social justice or some such nonsense make fools of themselves."

Outrageous claims about Columbus need to be tempered by a sober look at the historical record.

History suffers from an apparently terminal illness. It is quickly dying — and dying before our eyes.

How does a twenty-something recent liberal-arts graduate come to believe that his political opponents must be personally shamed and even physically beaten?

The last two years have failed to deliver any measurable progress on the Vatican's priorities and the status quo of all-dialogue-and-no-delivery has strengthened China's position over the Church in the country and neutralized diplomatic pressure internationally.

I have known a number of dual-income families over the years who desire to become one-income — typically experienced in conjunction with the birth of a child. This post is written with them in mind.

In her memoirs of teaching at Hunter College for nearly forty years, Alice von Hildebrand shows aspiring academics the importance of perseverance, courage, and love in the face of hostility toward one's moral and religious views.

New teachers need concrete examples from their teaching communities to help them manage their classrooms well and begin building experience and expertise. Returning teachers need opportunities for discussion within their communities to help them reflect on the experience and expertise they have already gained.

Many adults discover that their undergraduate education has provided little material for real intellectual, creative, or spiritual life. St. John's Graduate Institute, emphasizing Great Books and discussion, furnishes an invaluable model for educating adults with non-professional, life-informing goals.

A powerful antidote to such atomistic existence, loneliness, and alienation, is found in the family: productive, resilient, and together. A family-centered life with the home as the engine of education and economics orders one's vocations and roles in ways that build lasting familial bonds and provide stability amid a changing world. COVID-19 quarantining provides an opportunity for this reality to sink in.

Fallacious reasoning, when it reaches a critical mass, becomes a mass delusion, and destruction is preceded by delusion.

How truly wonderful to be able to keep on trying in all we do, knowing with faith that ultimately, the rest is up to God.

Saint Luke Productions is finishing editing Heart of Mercy, a film adaptation of their St. Faustina play with special effects that describes her many visions of heaven and hell.