The Faith can be challenging to explain to kids, especially its more abstract points. Since children do not develop abstract thinking skills...

As a student of history, there have been many occasions where something I assumed was historical fact turned out to be mere narrative with n...

If there is one thing that the Gospel makes abundantly clear, it is our obligation to forgive others. Christ warns us plainly in the Sermon ...

"To love is to will the good of another." This quote of St. Thomas Aquinas is often invoked as a definition of love. I tend to see...

It is common to speak of "handing on the faith" to one's children, "raising our children in the faith," and analagou...

Another twelve months has come and gone, another year in the valley of tears. Though it is cliche to say, I will never cease to marvel at th...

If you've never watched the lectures of Dr. Iain MacGilchrist on YouTube, do yourself a favor and look him up. I first came across his w...

Back in October, I caught up with an old buddy of mine from high school that I haven't seen since before the pandemic. We grabbed a movi...

The big news this week is the Vatican approval of what is being referred to as the "Mayan rite" of the Mass. Traditionalists react...

I am still working through Nicholas Orme's magnum opus Going to Church in Medieval England (which I intend on doing a review on in the ...

It is becoming increasingly clear to me how vehemently our modern culture loaths symbolism. Our society is so ridiculously analytical, so bu...

Hey everyone! Blessed Feast of Christ the King in the traditional calendar. I hope you all are well. I've been very busy and have had le...

One thing that’s so nice about Europe is the walking culture. Because the vast majority of European cities emerged before the invention of t...

A lot of Catholics ask me for advice on how to process what is unfolding these days. Events are really challenging people's paradigms of...

Don't ask me why, but sometimes I imagine myself in the Middle East—in somewhere like Erbil or Mosul—and I imagine getting kidnapped by ...