Lenten Fasting Biohacks

by Kendall Vanderslice and Hal Koss

Silicon Valley engineers fast to overcome their human limits, but Christians fast to embrace their limitations with humility. Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2018 0

Pork Roll, Lent, and Catholic Identity

by George Weigel

Friday abstinence was once a defining mark of the practicing Catholic, and it ought to be again. Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2018 0

Waugh’s Helena, Father General, and the Reality of Revelation

by George Weigel

Evelyn Waugh’s slim and critically unappreciated novel, Helena, is, at bottom, an act of faith in the reality of revelation. Continue Reading »

29 Mar 2017 0

A New Lenten Discipline

by George Weigel

For Lent 2016, I adopted a new Forty Days discipline in addition to intensified prayer, daily almsgiving, and letting my liver have its annual vacation: I quit sports talk radio, cold turkey. Continue Reading »

8 Mar 2017 0

A Lent to Remember

by George Weigel

There’s no better way to enter into the pilgrim character of the season that to participate in the 7 a.m. stational Mass led by the priest and students of the North American College. Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2017 0

A Community Pledged in the Spirit

by Russell E. Saltzman

Mulling my Lenten way through the Apostles’ Creed, I have come to see that in defining what we do not believe, we come to know better what we do believe. While the Creed positively summarizes what Christians believe, it equally fences out what we negatively do not believe. I have been walking the . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2016 0

Easter is not a Question Mark

by George Weigel

Excavating my desk recently, I found the program notes from a Tallis Scholars concert my wife and I had attended a few months ago. The Tallis Scholars are a marvelous a capella ensemble, but most of their music that night was rather too minimalist for my tastes. In any event, the author of the . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Mar 2016 0

Social Sins in Lent

by Timothy George

The season of Lent is a time of meditation and self-denial, as Christians join with Jesus in his journey toward the cross. Most often, the penitential disciplines of Lent focus on personal sins of greed and indulgence, with an emphasis on abstaining from some private luxuries and exercising a . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Mar 2016 0

What the Church Does Not Believe

by Russell E. Saltzman

This Lent has me digging through the Apostle’s Creed. Viewed in a certain direction, it not only says what we believe; it lets us in on what we do not believe. The first article of the Creed, my last column, says Christians believe in one God and this one God is the Father who made both heaven and . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Mar 2016 0

What We Do Not Believe Is What We Believe

by Russell E. Saltzman

I’m spending time this Lent with the Creed. I hadn’t gotten further than the first sentence before remembering something St. Peter said.“False prophets,” complained Peter, “appeared in the past among the people, and in the same way false teachers will appear among you. They will bring in . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Feb 2016 0