Kenneth Craycraft, an OSV columnist, is a professor of moral theology at Mount St. Mary's Seminary and School of Theology in Cincinnati and author of “Citizens Yet Strangers: Living Authentically Catholic in a Divided America" (OSV Books).
The recent declaration from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dignitatis Infinita, or “Infinite Dignity,” was met with criticism by some Catholics. Many of these criticisms focused on the title, arguing that no human quality can be ‘infinite.’ Our Sunday
Always coinciding with the onset of Spring, and often with Easter, baseball is the sport that uniquely contributes to a sense of rejuvenation and optimistic expectation. Its slower pace and long season also make it more suited than other sports to philosophical
In a 1949 issue of "Life" magazine, Evelyn Waugh published "The American Epoch in the Catholic Church." This 75th anniversary year is an opportunity to reintroduce this classic essay, which can be found in a collection of Waugh’s non-fiction “The Essays, Articles
When many people think of the meaning of Christ’s resurrection, they think of eternal life with God in heaven, free from all pain. And that is right and just. But as Our Sunday Visitor columnist Kenneth Craycraft argues, the Resurrection has a
The “doldrums” are a windless area of the world’s oceans that impeded and slowed ships before the rise of motor driven seagoing vessels. It’s where we get a term for being emotionally stalled, morally adrift or spiritually mired. Just as sailors once
According to the prevailing view in American law and politics, the family has no natural state or structure. Rather, like all other human relationships, the family is mere convention; it is a human invention that is as open to alteration or change
On March 6, Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama signed into law Senate Bill 159 in response to a controversial ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that classified frozen embryos from in vitro fertilization processes as children under the State's Wrongful Death of
In January, Pope Francis condemned surrogacy, and in February, the Alabama Supreme Court declared that frozen embryos are children. Together, these events thrust the Church’s condemnation of IVF and surrogacy into the public eye. Our Sunday Visitor columnist Kenneth Craycraft explains the
In an attempt to avoid being “Christian nationalists,” many people subordinate Christian faith to political liberalism. Ironically, this is similar to what actual Christian nationalists do. In either case, one’s moral life is informed by a political theory, to which Christian faith
Among the ads at this year’s Super Bowl was one from the organization He Gets Us, the latest in a series of TV and social media videos that have appeared over the past few years. The ad features a series of still