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A Saint Film to Inspire Others: Young Carlo

Why is it so hard to make a genuinely well-crafted saint film? This is a questio...

Learning to Become: Fulton Sheen and the Beatitudes

Over the years, I have had the joy of republishing many of Fulton J. Sheen’s boo...

“A Pathway Toward Healing and Hope”: Praying with the B...

Back in January, I was invited to lead a day-long workshop for Catholic school l...

Feel Good Religion Won’t Save You—The Cross Will

Have you ever been duped? Fooled, tricked, deceived, conned, swindled? “You dupe...

Why Beauty is Bringing Young Catholics Home

Modernity has trained us to use our senses for consumption rather than contempla...

Get Behind Me, Satan: Why Does Jesus Rebuke Peter?

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time In last Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus called Peter “the ro...

The Three Pillars of Faith—In Lived Reality

Imagine you are stuck in traffic. You are late, and there will be consequences. ...

The Two Augustines: Two Saints, One Catholic Faith

There are two St. Augustines in the Catholic calendar, and both deserve to be mu...

The Catholic Dating Cold War

A Reflection on the Polarization of Catholic Dating and the Hesitancy to Date Ca...

AI Chatbots Are Hell

Describing hell is no fun task. Often, images of fire and pits, provided by Chri...

When Nothing Seems to Be Happening: Lessons from St. Mo...

A worthy wife brings joy to her husband, peaceful and full is his life…Be he ric...

The Child Is Never the Problem: IVF, Human Dignity, and...

A few years ago, while teaching a class on bioethics and Christian anthropology,...

Overcoming Anger with the Virtue of Meekness

One of the most misunderstood virtues we are called to foster is meekness. In Ma...

The Right Tools Make All the Difference, Part 1

I am consistently engaged in a never-ending series of home upkeep projects, beca...

Beauty Will Save the World

“Beauty will save the world,” Fyodor Dostoevsky maintained. His faithful discipl...

Overcome the Age of the Embarrassed Catholic

A good number of modern Catholics often speak about their faith as if they were ...

Rebuilding the First Society and the Necessity of the F...

[We must] rebuild the first society. The family is the first city; strong marria...

Why Handwriting Matters in an AI World

Last year, shortly after my father died, I opened up his copy of the autobiograp...

Upon This Rock: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

In a conversation with Peter and the apostles, Jesus declares His intention to b...

Run into the Arms of Mary, Our Queen Mother

And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it ...