One of the most remarkable features of our society is its blithe dismissal of tradition. Religious practices that have long shaped our social and political life are held in contempt. Time-tested convictions that guided generations before us are not just second-guessed but mocked and denounced. It is . . . . Continue Reading »
Never may the theological and the pastoral be separated. Continue Reading »
It is an ominous sign when such a basic religious practice as prayer is now the target of hostile legislation in a democratic country. Continue Reading »
In the few short years since transhood went mainstream, childhood and adolescence has become a haze of puberty blockers, testosterone shots, sex-change surgeries, and gender confusion for untold numbers of young people. Continue Reading »
The crumbling of the LGBTQ+ alliance may well be a sign of the death of the old culture of sexual ethics. Continue Reading »
The contemporary crisis of Western civilization is fundamentally a crisis in the idea of the human person. Continue Reading »
In June 1970, America’s first gay pride parades hit the streets. Four U.S. cities—New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco—hosted crowds ranging from several hundred to a few thousand marching with homemade signs declaring “pride,” “power,” and “liberation.” Like . . . . Continue Reading »
The LGBTQ debate is about the radical abolition of metaphysics and metanarratives and any notion of cultural stability that might rest thereupon. Continue Reading »
Fr. James Martin’s work fails to express, or even take into account, Catholic teaching on what it means to be a person. Continue Reading »
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