American voters have it hard this election season and Catholic voters may seem to have it the worst of all. In addition to both parties screaming
Thirteen years ago, political firebrand Pat Buchanan wrote “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” The answer to Mr. Buchanan’s question appears to
By the time this article is posted online, the furor over the Festivity vignette from the Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony will likely have been
The eve of Advent may seem to be one of the least propitious junctures at which to raise the likely all-time least-favorite theological issue of
With the imminent arrival of Lent, an observance that American Catholics might consider during this time of introspection and penitence would be to acquire a
Perhaps in retrospect, one of the most prescient films of the new millennium is Surrogates. The premise of this 2009 science fiction thriller, starring Bruce
During the course of the past few months, a relatively obscure book written in 1970 by then-father Joseph Ratzinger has garnered interest from major news
The proprietor of a restaurant in Seaside, New Jersey, recently took to flying a “F*** Joe Biden” flag. Apparently, this step was not meant to
The author Maya Angelou once astutely observed that, “Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.” As
Springtide Research Institute, a newly formed research center that is focused on Gen Z, recently released a study on attitudes of adolescents and young adults
In June of this year, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops voted to consider drafting a teaching letter on the Eucharist. Like many ecclesiastical matters,
That humanity stands on the brink of almost incomprehensible change seems to be increasingly certain. The exponentiality of Moore’s law, which states that computing power
A few weeks after the world went into lockdown, my wife bought us access to the website MasterClass. I largely ignored it until I saw
A few weeks ago, my editor sent an email describing a recent anti-Catholic encounter he had in a local coffee shop. It reminded me of a
As 2021 begins, much of the planet is looking for hopeful signs of better things to come in the new year while at the same
Perhaps no presidential election since that of 1928 has politicized the Catholic Church in America as much as the one that concluded last month. Not
Last month, I wrote an article for Catholic Stand that advocated for a level of civility in the American political process. I argued this, in
As the United States enters the election season, it can be hard for American Catholics to remember that their first loyalty must be to God.
Meditation has never been more popular in the United States than it is at the present. Approximately 14% of adult Americans have at least tried
With the perspective of hindsight, it seems hard to fathom, but there was a distinct possibility that the Cold War could have ended in the
The American Enterprise Institute recently released a study on the historic ebb and flow of religion in the United States which demonstrated, surprisingly, that the
Last month, the Pew Research Center released a study indicating that 68% of U.S. Christian adults believe that the Bible should have some, or a
