Promoting the Common Good and Option for the Poor in the Trump Era: An Interview with Stephen Schneck

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

May 1, 2019 Millennial

Will the Trump Era Lead to the Rise and Triumph of Illiberal Catholic Conservatism? Don’t Count On It

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

April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 Daniel Petri

Unchecked Boxes and Encountering God and Holiness in Lent

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

April 16, 2019April 16, 2019 Guest Contributor

Highlights from the First Half of Christus Vivit

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

April 8, 2019April 8, 2019 Millennial

We Can’t Let Outrage and Distrust Dominate Our National Discourse

Over the MLK holiday weekend, as I watched my Twitter feed slowly implode into a confused chaos of rage about yet another incident with a vague but obviously unpleasant narrative, I buckled up for another roller coaster surge of rage, confusion, refinement of rage, apologies, recasting of narratives, and the final digging in of heels… Read More We Can’t Let Outrage and Distrust Dominate Our National Discourse

February 28, 2019February 28, 2019 Guest Contributor

We Need a Whole Life Response to Extreme Access-to-Abortion Laws

My son Theodore was born when he was 36 weeks and 2 days old. Together, his body and mine decided that that was the time his life would transition from one lived inside the womb to one lived outside of it. His birth day was not the day that his life began, it was the… Read More We Need a Whole Life Response to Extreme Access-to-Abortion Laws

February 14, 2019February 21, 2019 Guest Contributor

In the Wake of Another Crisis, Remembering Who the Church is

“I love the Church.” This is the answer I give when people ask me why I’m on my seventh year of school working on yet another theological degree, or when DC Uber drivers ask why I moved to the district. I was raised Catholic and attended Catholic school from kindergarten through eighth grade and Catholic… Read More In the Wake of Another Crisis, Remembering Who the Church is

February 6, 2019February 21, 2019 Guest Contributor

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Catholicism, Communion, and the Common Good in the Third Millennium

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