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Sep 4, 2025
The vicious transgender terrorist attack on Annunciation School in Minneapolis elicited the usual responses from the political left and right. From both sides, politicians...
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Aug 25, 2025
In perhaps the most famous sentences from St. Augustine’s magisterial fourth-century memoir, “Confessions,” the bishop of Hippo tells Our Lord, “You awaken us...
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Aug 15, 2025
The standard defense of the use of nuclear bombs in Japan is straightforward. Defenders assert that Japan would never surrender without a massive ground invasion by the allies. Such...
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Aug 7, 2025
On July 31, 2025, the Vatican press office reported that Pope Leo XIV will soon declare St. John Henry Newman to be a Doctor of the Church. Newman will be the 38th Doctor of the...
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Jul 30, 2025
A friend recently told me that my refusal to accept concepts like “nonbinary” and “transgender” is hurtful. Similarly hurtful is my refusal to use the wrong...
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Jul 23, 2025
To re-read an old favorite book is akin to being reunited with a close friend after some years apart. The sparks of friendship that fired the warmth of affection are rekindled....
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Jul 18, 2025
In Bob Dylan’s song “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” from his 1964 album, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Dylan lamented the 1963 assassination of civil...
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Jul 10, 2025
Over the course of the first week of July 2025, three separate events both portend the restoration of integrity in girls’ and women’s athletics and illustrate...
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Jul 4, 2025
On July 5, 1852, famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered a speech in Rochester, New York, titled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” In his address,...