Like St. Elizabeth of Hungary, her great-aunt, Elizabeth of Portugal, married young. At age 12 she became the bride of Portugal’s 20-year-old king, Dinis. Today such a match is shocking, but child brides were commonplace in the Middle Ages. Among royal families every marriage was a political alliance, and the sooner the alliance was sealed at the altar, the better.
Taken simply as an ingenuous expression of patriotism, there’s no real objection to America First. Charity at the global level truly must begin at home, for unless it starts there — in love of one’s own country, that is — charity isn’t likely to thrive anywhere else.
On June 14, the Vatican launched an anonymous online survey for young people between ages 16-29 to complete. The hope is to provide a platform for a range of voices to express their hopes, fears and challenges of living in light of faith.
A recent panel on "Pope Francis, Catholic Social Thought and U.S. Public Life" was an opportunity to think about our political era from a Catholic vantage point.
I recently spent an evening watching the CMT music awards, and the final performance of the night transported me back to the late ‘80s and road trips with my parents and brother.
Is it possible to start a conversation that will outlast the news cycle on the latest tragedy?
The son of an evangelical preacher and first-generation Americans, my dad rose early to provide for his wife and three sons. Since no quantity of words will ever capture the way he has served his office of fatherhood, this Father’s Day I will settle for five verbs.
In the absence of temperance, we shall continue to apply patchwork, partial solutions here and there while piously decrying addiction as a bad thing.
Brave, like sparrows