Sin Makes You Stupid — Lent Makes You Smart
COMMENTARY: The Catholic life of repentance, as focused on the season of Lent, provides a path to being smarter and better.
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Good Friday: His Yoke Is Easy and His Burden Is Glorious
COMMENTARY: Good Friday is a day in which Easter is active, not just anticipated.
The Lenten Cure for Secular Optimism
COMMENTARY: I love Lent, but some people don’t, and sometimes I don’t either.
Read the Bible Like It’s Your Family’s Story
COMMENTARY: We try to live the family’s life, which reflects their teaching, and we eventually understand, or maybe not. But we live it, because it’s our family’s life.
Dorothy Day on the True Joys of Christmas
COMMENTARY: We are one and need to live as one. That was one great lesson of Christmas that Dorothy Day saw and lived.
Atheism, the Evidence for God, and the Evidence for Ghosts
COMMENTARY: Dealing with evidence is always complicated, and tricky, and may or may not lead to a conclusion. But you’ll never get anywhere if you dogmatically refuse to accept the evidence as evidence.
Love Your Social-Media Target as Yourself
COMMENTARY: We too easily confuse worldly status with virtue and confuse the nice things status brings with the visible signs of goodness.
How to Think About Politics, and How So Many People Don’t
COMMENTARY: Catholics can approach political issues with a clear set of principles, but must go a long way to figure out how to incarnate those principles in the public law and policy.
On Christian Democracy and the Lost Tradition of Courtesy
COMMENTARY: Courtesy is an old-fashioned and out-of-fashion word, but it’s an up-to-date idea.
On Christian Democracy and the Lost Tradition of Courtesy
COMMENTARY: Courtesy is an old-fashioned and out-of-fashion word, but it’s an up-to-date idea.
