Poland’s Baby Bump

by Lyman Stone

Since implementing a financial plan intended to boost the country's fertility rate, Poland has seen a small rise in births.  Continue Reading »

2 Mar 2018 0

The Eschatological Hope of Bearing Children

by Ian Caveny

To bear a baby is to participate in the mysteries of God.  Continue Reading »

5 Feb 2018 0

Self-Sacrificial Love in the Bioethics-Sphere

by Wesley J. Smith

Some these days are forced to battle doctors and bioethicists in order to properly care for their loved ones. Their courage is inspiring.  Continue Reading »

8 Dec 2017 0

Steinem vs. Friedan

by Peter Wood

The Fight is a tight, vivid, and compelling play depicting how the two doyennes of American feminism—Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem—faced off. Continue Reading »

22 Nov 2017 0

A Theology of Adoption

by Lauren Rae Konkol

In Not by Nature but by Grace, Gilbert Meilaender offers a primer for understanding adoption through a scriptural and ethical lens.  Continue Reading »

27 Oct 2017 0

To My Daughter, Turning Ten

by Paul Beston

Paul Beston muses on the joys of watching his daughter grow up.  Continue Reading »

13 Sep 2017 0

The Merciful Grace of the Truth

by George Weigel

At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults, were baptized or entered into full communion with the Catholic Church. Each of them walked a unique itinerary of conversion; each of these “newborn babes” (1 Peter 2.2) is a singular work of the Holy Spirit. . . . . Continue Reading »

13 Apr 2016 0

Francis Delivers

by William Doino Jr.

In the days leading up to Francis’s recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laeititia, one would have thought that a seismic shift in Catholic theology was about to take place. The New York Times wrote excitedly, “Liberals . . . are hoping Francis will directly address same-sex marriage and . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Apr 2016 0

The Holy Family

by Russell E. Saltzman

Of the Passover festival in Jerusalem, St. Luke concisely reports, “When the festival was ended, Jesus stayed behind but his parents did not know it” (2:43). Of course they didn’t know it. They are parents. What makes anyone think they knew anything at all? The twelve-year-old Jesus decided to . . . . Continue Reading »

31 Dec 2015 0

Divorce and Communion

by Russell E. Saltzman

There were only two occasions in my life as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) that required disciplinary ministry with a church member. One was gossip; the other was sex. The first didn’t get beyond private admonition by the pastor, me. That’s what the pastor does in . . . . Continue Reading »

5 Nov 2015 0