The Moral Significance of Stretching
COMMENTARY: Humanity has a date with destiny but can meet it only by dint of our own heroic stretching.
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A Sympathetic Retrospective on Catholic Intellectual Steve Allen
COMMENTARY: The fallen-away Catholic entertainer’s issue, one might conclude, was not a quarrel with the Church’s view on thinking, but a personal crisis of faith.
Veronica’s Image and the True Mission of Jesus
COMMENTARY: Christ’s authenticity, reflected in the image on Veronica’s veil, should inspire that same authenticity to shine in us.
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen’s Last Day
COMMENTARY: ‘I want to see the Lord. I have spent hours before Him in the Blessed Sacrament. … [N]ow I want to see Him face-to-face.’
Four Steps to Prepare a Young Man for Marriage
COMMENTARY: Marriage, especially in the Catholic sense, is an institution created by God. Therefore, it takes three to get married.
The Meaning of Life
COMMENTARY: ‘Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?’
An Atheist’s Argument for Atheism
COMMENTARY: Atheism is not only the failure to believe in God, but the failure to believe in one’s self.
Waiting in Joyful Hope: Is Patience Possible in Our Culture of Immediacy?
COMMENTARY: To survive the frenzied holiday consumer culture, remember Faith and Hope are the book ends of patience: one to lean on, the other to look forward to...
The Catholic Composer Who Gave Us More Than Music
COMMENTARY: Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904), in addition to leaving his musical gift to posterity, also provides an example of unwavering Catholic faith in times of difficulty.
Shakespeare’s Relevance in Today’s World
COMMENTARY: A convincing case can be made to support the claim that the Bard is the most relevant writer who ever set pen paper.
