St. Gregory of Nazianzus Warns: Don’t Think Too Highly of Yourself
COMMENTARY: Through Lent, we enact in a personal way our fundamental equality in the Church and learn something about our own sins and failings.
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The Answer to Our Culture of Narcissism
COMMENTARY: Christmastide offers a profound rebuttal to a culture increasingly shaped by self-absorption, reminding us that we learn who we are only by being loved.
Some People Are Too Smart for Their Own Goodness
COMMENTARY: We often mistake intelligence for wisdom, but only goodness helps us see reality as it truly is.
What the Confession Line Taught Me About Living the Faith
COMMENTARY: Confession lines reveal both our impatience and our devotion — and whether our faith runs so deep that even our faults take place within it.
When Tolerance Masks Bigotry: Chesterton’s Warning for Today
COMMENTARY: G.K. Chesterton saw that the man who claims to be ‘tolerant’ without having convictions is often the least able to truly respect and engage with others.
All Souls Day Is a Feast of Our Friendship With the Dead
COMMENTARY: The faithful departed are not distant memories but companions still — God binds us together, even across death itself.
Why Catholicism Is a Religion of the Hard Reset
COMMENTARY: The Catholic Church teaches that we need more than a quick prayer — we need confession’s hard reset to keep us on course.
Beware the Temptation to Improvise Your Faith
COMMENTARY: Skipping duties in the name of spontaneity leads to spiritual collapse, not freedom.
God’s Answer to the Pain of Adolescence
COMMENTARY: The world wounds us early, but darkness has an enemy, and fear is not the end of the story.
The Catholic Who Told the Unitarian She Had Nothing to Offer
COMMENTARY: The rough-and-tumble correspondence between two women, one Catholic and one Unitarian, provides one model of how people who disagree can speak to each other.
