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Responding to our toxic culture

By Russell Shaw
In today’s America, as in other countries like it, people of faith are facing a question of critical importance: How should they respond to a dominant secular culture that’s not just hostile to their beliefs but bent on forcing them to conform to its values and, not incidentally, winning the allegiance of their children? Fresh […]
4/20/17
Reading Time 3 min

Sarin and the Congress

By John Garvey
Amid the general, bipartisan enthusiasm for the president’s decision to fire 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base, I worry that we have lost sight of an important principle.  The president made the decision on his own. Congress stood by like a Sunday afternoon crowd at Wimbledon, a spectator but not a player, […]
4/20/17
Reading Time 3 min

Springtime surrender

By Elizabeth Foss

Springtime surrender can be the fiat of our souls. It’s the assent of our wills to do His will. It’s the recognition that our work — all of it — should truly be the work of His hands. 

4/19/17
Reading Time 3 min

What about Peter?

By Connor Bergeron

A review of Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' and an alternative ending.

4/18/17
Reading Time 5 min

The importance of Jackie Robinson

By George Weigel

Jackie Robinson's accomplishments should rank as high as anyone’s in the pantheon of civil rights heroes.

4/18/17
Reading Time 3 min

Easter: Victory over death

By Fr. Robert J. Wagner

On that first Easter, the third day after Jesus was laid in the tomb, His disciples must have felt that Christ’s mission was over. No one had ever defeated death. It had claimed everyone. 

4/18/17
Reading Time 3 min

Are the rich evil?

By Fr. Kenneth Doyle

Riches come with a moral duty to help the needy. 

4/18/17
Reading Time 2 min

The power of the cross

By George Weigel
Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-90) — a theologian who came to prominence in the Victorian Age — can help us check the church’s spiritual pulse in the post-modern 21st  century, thanks to his prescient sense of the deep cultural currents shaping (and warping) Western civilization. On Aug. 26, 1832, Newman preached a sermon, “The Religion […]
4/12/17
Reading Time 3 min

Science and religion

By Russell Shaw

The more science tells us about the operations of this remarkable world, the more light is shed on God’s extraordinary creativity.

4/10/17
Reading Time 3 min

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