Video: Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Panel Discussion
Join us for a discussion of some of the most contentious and pressing bioethical issues today. Advanced directives, brain death,…
Live Local or Die: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching
Are you becoming a slave to next-day shipping and cell phone screens? Have you ever wanted to learn how to…
Video / Church Teaching / Civic Life / Culture / Family Life
Do We Still Hold These Truths? A Presidents’ Day Roundtable Discussion on Faith and Politics
This Presidents’ Day panel discussion features prominent Catholic writers and public figures Robert Royal, Joseph Pearce, and William Fahey, moderated…
The Catholic Church on Slavery with Paul Kengor
In his new book, The Worst of Indignities: The Catholic Church on Slavery, Dr. Paul Kengor explores the Catholic Church’s longstanding…
The Weaponization of Loneliness with Stella Morabito
by Phil Lawler
Stella Morabito spent more than a decade studying Soviet propaganda as a CIA analyst, sharpening her ability to recognize how…
Podcast / Civic Life / Culture
Catholics, Politics, and the Economy:
Principles and Problems
by Samuel Gregg
In an increasingly hostile secular culture, how should we protect and promote our faith? How should we defend and strengthen…
Video / Civic Life / Culture
Living a Life of Catholic Integrity in a Hostile World
In an increasingly hostile secular culture, how should we protect and promote our faith? How should we defend and strengthen…
Video / Civic Life / Culture
Was America’s Founding Fatally Flawed by the Provenance of Its Ideas?
Troubled by the ample evidence of a moral decline in the United States, some Catholic thinkers trace the problem to…
Was America’s Founding Fatally Flawed by the Provenance of Its Ideas?
Troubled by the ample evidence of a moral decline in the United States, some Catholic thinkers trace the problem to…
The Next American Economy with Samuel Gregg
by Phil Lawler
Phil talks with Samuel Gregg about his book The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, wherein he…
The Statesman as Thinker
by Phil Lawler /Dr. Dan Mahoney
Phil Lawler talks with political theorist Daniel Mahoney about his new book, The Statesman as Thinker—a book that portrays some of…
Liberty or Lockdown
by Phil Lawler
Phil Lawler talks with Jeffrey Tucker, the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, about his new book, Liberty or Lockdown….
Podcast / Civic Life / Culture
Rediscovering the Gift of Creation:
The Truth about Environmentalism
What is Creation and how is it different from “the environment”? What does this difference say about the environmentalism and…
Can Democratic Ideals Survive in the Administrative State?
by Phil Lawler
During the Covid crisis, the assertion of sweeping new government powers should force Americans to confront a disturbing trend: With…
Archbishop Cordileone’s pastoral: Pelosi’s last warning?
by Phil Lawler
With his pastoral letter powerfully reaffirming the importance of the Church’s teaching on the dignity of human life, San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore…
American Awakening
Is “identity politics” a distortion of Christianity— a reversion toward primitive religions, with their scapegoats? For his ‘Book of the…
America on Trial
by Phil Lawler
Was the American experiment doomed from the outset? Did the Founding Fathers rely too heavily on the flawed thinking of…
Sensationalism: The Coverage of Current Events
Two veteran observers of the Catholic scene, Robert Royal and Phil Lawler, share their thoughts about sensationalism in the media—…
A Vision of Hope
Although enrollments declined at parochial schools in the US this year, some schools, offering an authentically Catholic education, have enjoyed…
Video / Civic Life / Education
Fear: the ultimate enemy of faith
by Phil Lawler
Every morning, for the better part of a year now, a headline in the local newspaper has called attention to…
