Requiem for a Nun: On Staying When Friends Leave
It was cold and damp the day the last Anglican mass was celebrated in the chapel at All Saints Convent...It was a Requiem
Pentecostal and Catholic Distinctives
How, in the first place, is the Pentecostal way of reading Scripture distinctive?
We Can’t Just Rebuild
It is tragically fitting that this catastrophe should take place in France, once the home of the Holy See and now among the most secular nations in the West.
Ordinariate Evangelism and Archbishop Sheen
Abp. Fulton J. Sheen: “The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.”
Godless Worlds: John Gray and Atheism
Gray, though consistently anti-utopian, is not necessarily nihilistic.
Trauma and the Eucharist
All the sacraments are traumatic for us. Our body is no longer completely our own, our present is interrupted by a foretaste of the eschatological banquet, and the sacraments ultimately are beyond any adequate verbal description.
The Good Boredom of the Mass
If you are bored in church, something might have gone wrong: shoddy liturgy, sloppy homily, strip mall architecture — or, more often, simply your indisposition toward the Lord.
The Future of Liberalism: Patrick Deneen and Tucker Carlson
How do we pursue the common good when we can’t see beyond our custom commercial and entertainment options that are always increasing and never satisfying?