We need to defend a Catholic sense of “triumphalism.” Since truth and the triumph of Christ are inseparable, politeness must not mute the Faith.

During the summer of 2025, I had the idea that I wanted to visit the graves of all the priests who have served in the Diocese of Green Bay. I had visited a considerable number—but in comparison to the ...

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has produced Venite ad me, subtitled “Considerations on the Transmission of the Faith in an Epochal Change.” The document is supposedly the response of the ...

Catholic marriages have collapsed since 1975, and one overlooked obstacle keeps young Catholics from even dating: cringe. With St. Thomas Aquinas as our guide, Catholic young adult culture can become ...

Whether girls should be altar servers is a debate that has become a luxury, while vocations are a necessity. The answer to both the vocations crisis and the crisis of fatherhood is the same: fathers ...

Recently, I told my 4-year-old the story of the Miracle of the Sun that took place during the last apparition of the Blessed Virgin at Fatima on Oct. 13, 1917. Her reaction was completely unlike mine ...

Twelve U.S. bishops prayed over President Trump at the Resolute Desk twelve days before the midterms, and within days two of them were apologizing for being “manipulated” and “exploited” into a ...

Our Catholic moral tradition has always recognized a hierarchy of moral gravity. Not all wrongs are the same. We know this instinctively. Some are the result of human weakness and flawed speech; ...

Today we look at the “Reform of the Reform” movement, which decries the post-Vatican II liturgical reforms and attempts to implement what it calls an “authentic” reform of the Liturgy. Is this ...

They have dispatched the monk to Rome. Said quickly, it sounds like a promotion. Said slowly, with the facts laid out in order, it sounds like what it is: the quiet destruction of a scholar’s life by ...

I went to see the movie Conclave because someone who came to my Sunday Mass said that she was wondering how much was “real” about it. She had been to the Sistine Chapel and loved the fact that some of ...