Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option presents itself as a guidebook for surviving the fall of Christian civilization. Dreher argues that, in order for Christians to...
Mary Eberstadt's outstanding book, Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, is a must-read for Catholics, indeed for anyone concerned ab...
I just finished reading The Recovery of the Sacred by noted Church historian James Hitchcock. Published in 1974, Hitchcock's outstanding book argues for a recov...
"Thus let the voice gradually cease to perform its function as the soul progresses towards Christ." ~Saint Augustine
With his latest book, The Power of Silence...
Surfing the Internet this time of year, a Christian reader will frequently stumble upon pious recommendations that start with, “As the retail world begins to ce...
"Stuck in the past" is a description that is never used as a complement. It shouldn't be. Romanticism is not a good thing. At the same time, deriding the past a...
History has not been kind to Queen Mary I of England. She has a famous drink named after her of course, but in 2016, it's unlikely that many know much more abou...
Pope Pius XII called Dietrich von Hildebrand "the twentieth-century Doctor of the Church". Pope Benedict XVI is also a great admirer. Dietrich von Hildebrand (1...
One of the more troubling cultural developments in our day is the movement to obscure the reality of sin. We're getting to the point where even many self-profes...
There's a poignent moment in George Orwell's classic 1984 when the protagonist, Winston Smith, reflects on the surreal state of affairs under the dictatorship o...