2+ week, 23+ hour ago  (652+ words) Without a clear rule of life, we drift from what matters most; with one, we can order our days toward faith and flourishing. As Lebanese-American writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb notes, "A man without a heroic bent starts dying." We were…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (668+ words) COMMENTARY: If young Catholics believe science and faith are in conflict, the Church must show them why the two belong together. When confronted with the challenge of young people leaving the Catholic faith, we might be tempted to think the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (621+ words) COMMENTARY: After producing one of the greatest bodies of theological thought in history, St. Thomas Aquinas fell silent " reminding us that even the highest human wisdom gives way before divine mystery. St. Thomas Aquinas, whose feast the Catholic Church celebrates…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (613+ words) The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. In our own day, Charlie Kirk inspired the…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (470+ words) COMMENTARY: History shows that evil movements rise and fall, but God's plan remains sovereign " and Christians need not fear the outcome. We live in a world in which all sorts of evil things happen and, which is worse, a world…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (631+ words) COMMENTARY: The late Alasdair Mac Intyre desired that new forms of community life could be created where morality and civility would thrive. Notre Dame emeritus professor and philosopher Alasdair Mac Intyre, who died May 21, became world-renowned following the publication of…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago  (407+ words) We tend to gallop through the Sacred Mysteries, forgetting the silence meant to gather the broken pieces of our lives before God. True stillness prepares the soul for mercy. And yet in that very silence, as we are reminded by…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago  (428+ words) Healthiness can lead to the wholeness that is holiness. Looking after our health is important and looking after our spiritual health is the most important thing of all. Since this is so, the neglect of our health, especially our spiritual…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (687+ words) By doing things that are within my power today, I'm building a better tomorrow. Legend has it that St. Francis of Assisi was tending his garden one day when someone stopped him to ask, "What would you do now if…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1393+ words) Kate Stapleton was 21 when she became pregnant. She never considered abortion, but at the same time, she realized she didn't have the kind of life she wanted her child to have. The pro-life movement has an enormous range of support…...