Gender Theory: Follow the Logic
William
We're being hit by a new scourge: contemporary gender theory. According to this theory, you do not choose your "biological sex", but you do choose whether or no...
Contributors
High School Apologetics
William
A while back I visited a Catholic high school. In one class, apologetics, the teacher asked me to go to the front of room and defend Catholicism from the stude...
Living Friendship
Beth
Friendship requires intimacy. By ‘intimacy’, I mean a kind of closeness, a mutual and deep knowledge of the other with whom we are friends. Aristotle agrees wh...
Learning to See Again
Teri
Nowadays, most people wake to the sound of their smart phone alarm. Unless one has made a decidedly conscious resolution, the next movement of the day is to si...
Institutional Lukewarmness
Brien Farley
Most Catholics know that it’s not good to be lukewarm. In fact, it’s bad — very bad. Afterall, no less than Our Lord and Redeemer Himself made this terrif...
My Journey to Christ, and What Keeps Me Close to Him
Maddox
Ever since I was a teenager I have always felt that I was meant to do something big, something important. Something that would be special and perhaps even insp...
Latin Lives
A.L.P.
More often than not, students will complain about having to endure at least one course of Latin. In Amercian high schools, and I dare say seminaries, the commo...
Monastery Visit in France
William
Some years back, I was visiting religious orders. I wanted to serve God, and pursue sanctity, by living in community and doing intellectual work. Joining the Do...
Milwaukee Flag Controversy
William
Did you know that Milwaukee has a city flag? It’s one of the busiest flags around, featuring a barley stalk, a large gear, an Indian, an elongated boat with a t...
The Paps that Gave Thee Suck
EMR
The Lucca Madonna, Jan van Eyck, 1436.
Does it make you squirm? Here is the Virgin Mary, the Madonna, Our Lady -- in a state of undress. Motherhood is well an...