Weekly Update

Are we just enduring a diminishment in reading habits, or in mental and intellectual ones, too?

The life and memory of the Church continue to resonate, in their stubborn way, across a large portion of our culture.

Christian nationalism is something of a misnomer. Christians can be genuinely patriotic, of course – but beyond that, one gets into choppy waters.

Maybe it’s in all our interests if what we determine the “best” for human beings to be comes instead from a common, shared, transcendent ideal, one that goes far beyond any one of us.

The search for a narrative worth being part of just may be the search worthy of our greatest intellectual and personal efforts.

For a Christian, there’s a clear order to follow when considering difficult and contentious issues: we start, always, in first principles.

“Habemus Papam” is yet another sign that the Lord is with us – a sign that God himself is making good on his promise to provide a shepherd for us.

Habemus Papam! The electors have completed the task before them, and now the Holy Father has his. What about us?

Christians are called to patiently and consistently apply eternal principles to human affairs, even when that patient and consistent application doesn’t seem to be “working.”

In his embrace of this great mystery of redemption, the Pope’s death is a final instruction to his flock: Christ is all that we have, when it comes down to it.