Being a celebrity is dangerous

Newspapers love to run stories about celebrities being weird or self-destructive, because celebrity-obsessed Americans gobble them up. People reading them naturally ask why celebrities “spin off into eccentricity and madness,” actor-director-novelist Ethan Hawke wrote a few years ago: “Celebrity is a form

Who you are changes what you see

Some people, writes columnist David Mills, are not open to seeing beyond what they want to see. Others are curious and open to hearing other opinions. Mills shares two experiences where he and his friends were overheard talking about anything from politics

How we sow matters when it comes to evangelization

David Mills and another fellow writer were going back and forth about how the best devotional article won’t get as many readers as a political article by the same writer. Publish a wild rant claiming that God hates Biden or that God

If you’re bored, it’s your own fault

In a world brimming with knowledge and opportunities, boredom should be alien. G.K. Chesterton, the celebrated English writer, once wisely remarked, "There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject. The only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

The best worship is not what you think it is

What does it mean to have “good worship”? You might have your own opinions and want to convert people to share in them, but arguments over worship usually don't get us far and don't do much to renew the Church. Instead, as

The Catholic faith can tame your ugliest instincts

An internationally best-selling novelist who might have won the Nobel Prize in literature, a patriotic Pole and a devout Catholic, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was also an ardent anti-semite. And she is a model for us, writes David Mills, not despite her bigotry but

In the tabernacle, a true friend awaits

Columnist David Mills shares one of his favorite parts about Catholicism: knowing that Christ is always truly present in the tabernacle, like a friend who is waiting to welcome you into his home: “I entered the Church in part because she offered

The feeling that’s worse than snobbery

Fastidiousness is not a word we hear too often these days, but in his latest column, David Mills explores how our tendency — even as Catholics — to look down on things and people can keep us separated from the good and

You are a fraud, and it doesn’t matter

“About a third of medical school students feel that they’re ‘a fraud and not worthy of their achievements,” writes David Mills. “They fear they won’t get through medical school, much less become good doctors.” They aren’t the only ones who feel as

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