In his book, “The Contemplative Hunger,” Father Donald Haggerty has a chapter that headlines a question: “A Contemplative Revolution?” Father Haggerty writes: “The evidence is strong today that a desire for silent prayer is being felt by more and more souls, a
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
Following the Last Supper, Jesus hands over his body to be a sacrifice for all. At each celebration of the Eucharist, we are brought back to Calvary. As the Church in the United States continues the ongoing National Eucharist Revival, take time
February 24, 2022, opened a new page in Ukraine’s history — Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. That day, the Russian army attacked Ukrainian territories from the north, east and south. Missiles hit most regions of the country. Many people were
If you were to form your opinions by relying solely on TikTok influencers, Netflix movies like "Marriage Story" or fashionable cultural commentary -- as found in The New York Times or New York magazine -- you could be forgiven for thinking marriage
There is always something oddly mismatched about love, even when people are trying their best. Men love women differently than women love men, parents love their children differently than children love their parents, and children have the charmingly vexing tendency to pour
While many dioceses have been forced to close Catholic schools due to low enrollment, there is a trend across the country that’s offering hope. Since 2020, there have been over two-hundred new Catholic “classical” schools established in the United States and a
When the much-anticipated Britney Spears autobiography, “The Woman in Me,” was released in October 2023, it was the story of her abortion that took the internet by storm. At the time of Spears’ abortion in 2000, the Food and Drug Administration had
There is a moment right after passing outside of our galaxy when, all of a sudden, the darkness of space fills with uncountable new points of light. It looks like a very full night sky on Earth, with every star shining. But
Adam and Eve were the ideal couple, the floor model, the textbook example, the paradigm. They had it all. But they didn’t want to be who they were. They wanted to be different people and, in a bold act of the will,