Links: Leila Lawler, The Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in Family Life (affiliate link) C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man David Clayton, The…
In an increasingly hostile secular culture, how should we protect and promote our faith? How should we defend and strengthen…
by Phil Lawler
Last year the sudden death of Rev. Paul Mankowski, SJ, deprived the Catholic world of a brilliant scholar and writer—…
Although enrollments declined at parochial schools in the US this year, some schools, offering an authentically Catholic education, have enjoyed…
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As the atmosphere grew tense in Jerusalem, our Lord spoke the parable of the two sons (Matthew 21:28-32). When the…
In the heart of noisy Manhattan, when silence falls outside the window, I suspect something has gone wrong. St. Gregory…
Among truisms, one of the more contestable is that opposites attract. What is true, say, of magnetic poles is not…
Just as the parable of the mustard seed has its counterpart in the parable of the yeast, the parable of…
“If you bite him again, I’ll disqualify you.” Thus spake the surprisingly contralto voice of Mills Lane, referee of the…
Lord Palmerston, or certainly some such confident Victorian, said: “If you do well here, you’ll do well there.” Many Christians…
Within about five minutes half of her family had been slain. Lydia Longley, aged 20, entered into the strange journey…
St. Peter was an impetuous man, unlike his most recent successors, and so his reserve through our Lord’s discourse in…
Without a “sense” of the Church, Jesus’ parables can be reduced to exercises in moralism. Fundamentalist readers, or even those…
Alice was rightly perplexed in Through the looking Glass when the Walrus said it was time to talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and…
In 1789 George Washington prayed in St. Paul’s Church, on what we now call lower Broadway, on the day of…
By a delicate symmetry, the parable of the mustard seed takes up just two verses of the Scriptures (Matthew 13:…
I remember with special affection a certain professor of mine who once said to a prolific rival: “I see you’ve…
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field…There was a landowner who planted a vineyard…The ground…
This is my last “Coincidentally” Column. And so, as at the end of a dinner party, I am gathering up…
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