The common orientation of priest and people during the Liturgy of the Eucharist symbolizes—or perhaps better, lives out—the Church’s conviction that the Mass is an act of worship offered to the Thrice-Holy God. Continue Reading »
The American pastime offers a balm for our restless, competitive, and often militaristic culture. Continue Reading »
Any Catholic who rejects Catholic teaching, or who technically accepts it but minimizes it to the point of insignificance, is not a “moderate” Catholic but a dissenter, or one seeking approval from the world (a temptation Our Lord warns against)—and should be identified as such. Continue Reading »
The next president will have troops of civil rights attorneys poised to enlighten the ignorant masses and to punish states and school districts for treating boys as boys and girls as girls. Continue Reading »
Hamilton tells of America’s pursuit of greatness and reminds us how much we need goodness. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical locates politics downstream of marriage and family. Continue Reading »
Whatever variety of outsider populism Trump awakened, he’s walked all over it. His collapse in early polling heralds a Republican debacle. Nothing like it has happened since Goldwater. Continue Reading »
What went wrong with the public life of American Catholics? How far back does the problem go? Continue Reading »
The Obama administration's environmental initiatives in Utah prompt controversy and a crucial question: Are we overrunning the land in the name of saving it? Continue Reading »
When I vote for one of the major party candidates for president this year, it will in good part be as an act of solidarity with people for whom talk of the “privilege” of voting is more than rhetoric. Continue Reading »
Stubbornly adhering to the “no medicinal uses” fiction aggravates the anarchy of state medical-marijuana laws. Continue Reading »
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