President Trump will visit El Paso today. Following the recent shooting in El Paso, Americans and the media are rightly focused on the overdue reform of gun laws. But while the attack in El Paso was surely enabled by the failure of politicians to enact even a modicum of reform, it is categorically different. For… Read More When Opposing the President Isn’t Political, But About Survival
From the first time we step into our kindergarten classroom, inspirational messages abound from our parents, teachers, and mentors: You can be anything you want to be. You’re going to change the world. God has great plans for you. Similarly, at my Jesuit undergraduate institution, St. Ignatius of Loyola’s quote formed the basis of our… Read More 4 Suggestions for Restoring Adventure to Your Daily Life
This Sunday’s Gospel (Luke 10:25-37) might be Jesus’ best-known story. How many times have you heard the phrase, “Good Samaritan”? Even non-Christians know the term suggests someone who is kind, generous, or brave. But few of us fully understand – much less live up to – the demands of Jesus’ teaching. Here are 10 things… Read More How to Really Understand the Parable of the Good Samaritan
Dr. Stephen Schneck is one of the country’s premier Catholic intellectuals—an advocate for Catholic social teaching in public life, lecturer, writer, and activist. He recently retired as the Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies (IPR) at the Catholic University of America, where he was also an award-winning professor in the politics… Read More Promoting the Common Good and Option for the Poor in the Trump Era: An Interview with Stephen Schneck
Over at First Things, a manifesto was recently published that proclaimed that the old “conservative consensus” was dead and that space has been created by Donald Trump’s victory for a better form of conservatism. The authors of the manifesto are right about the demise of the old conservative consensus; there are many studies and public… Read More Will the Trump Era Lead to the Rise and Triumph of Illiberal Catholic Conservatism? Don’t Count On It
I was never really a big Lent guy. Advent was more my season. Who wouldn’t prefer a decorated Christmas tree to a stringy palm branch, or singing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” as the snow falls outside the church to signing “Dust and Ashes” on a cold and wet March Wednesday, or a crèche with… Read More Unchecked Boxes and Encountering God and Holiness in Lent
Here are some highlights from the first half of Christus Vivit, Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation: The very first words, then, that I would like to say to every young Christian are these: Christ is alive and he wants you to be alive! (1) He is in you, he is with you and he never… Read More Highlights from the First Half of Christus Vivit
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