Editorials of Interest
Valuing Celibacy - First Things
The guiding assumption is that eliminating the celibacy requirement would increase the supply of priestly labor to the Church without a commensurate reduction in quality.
What is RCIA? - Now That I'm Catholic
This article will answer some of the most common questions about the process.
A New Carmel - Crisis Magazine
It is 4:00 a.m. and fifteen Carmelite sisters arise to this call, dating back to the days of their foundress, Saint Terese of Avila.
Lockdowns: An Abortion Argument - The Catholic Thing
How can the choice to have an abortion be protected under the penumbras of privacy but the choice of who comes over for Thanksgiving and Christmas be restricted for reasons of public health?
My People Need Christ's Body and Blood - First Things
"They canceled Easter. Is Christmas next?" Matthew Hennessey asked this question in the Wall Street Journal on December 8. We bishops have been hearing variations on Hennessey's cry from our people as we approach another pandemic-dominated Lent, barely a month away.
Furies - Wyoming Catholic College
In times of upheaval and danger, the tendency might be to discard as useless the heritage of the past, as though it could have no bearing on the present distress. But precisely here we can make our greatest mistake.
The Spiritual Quest of Identity Politics - Law & Liberty
When we say "I have an identity" these days, we mean something more than time. We mean the group of which we're a member that has a certain status in the great continuum of innocence and transgression.
Some Troubles in Dublin - The Catholic Thing
The Archbishop-Elect of Dublin, Dermot Farrell, gave an interview to the Irish Times soon after his appointment had been announced by the Holy See, calling the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on homosexuality merely technical.
Writing a Rule of Life: A Timeless Tool for Decision-Making - Public Discourse
I may not live in a monastic community like St. Benedict, but I live among others in my own sort of domestic monastery, and I am fully invested in these members' flourishing. My Rule of Life helps me flesh out what it means to thrive both personally and as a family.
St. John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |