New Podcast:
American Awakening
Phil Lawler’s Book-of-the-Month club (conversations with authors) This month: Joshua Mitchell, author of American Awakening, explains his argument that “identity politics”…
Civilized Reader:
“If youth knew;
if age could”
by Paul Connell
In times of cultural transition such as our own, we would do well to heed the words of the great…
America on Trial
by Phil Lawler
Phil Lawler’s Book-of-the-Month club (conversations with authors) This month: Robert Reilly, author of America on Trial, defends the Founding Fathers against…
New Webinar: A Vision of Hope
Although enrollments declined at parochial schools in the US this year, some schools, offering an authentically Catholic education, have enjoyed…
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A Vision of Hope
Although enrollments declined at parochial schools in the US this year, some schools, offering an authentically Catholic education, have enjoyed…
Remembering the day when lightning struck at the Vatican
by Phil Lawler
Eight years ago today, lightning struck the dome of St. Peter’s basilica—twice! The building was not significantly damaged by that…
Coming soon: a necessary showdown in the US bishops’ conference
by Phil Lawler
There’s a battle brewing within the US bishops’ conference, and it could be a boon to the faithful. As our…
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…
What if everyone will eventually be Covid-positive?
by Phil Lawler
Just to help clarify our thinking, let’s imagine an unpleasant possibility: that sooner or later, we’ll all be infected with…
The Church in Crisis
with Ralph Martin
by Phil Lawler
Phil Lawler’s Book-of-the-Month club (conversations with authors) This month: Ralph Martin, author of A Church in Crisis, explores the confusion and…
Rediscovering Columbus
by Robert Royal /Dr. William Fahey
Across the nation, schoolchildren are being taught that Christopher Columbus was a genocidal maniac. Monuments to the explorer are being…
Oedipus the Detective
The murder mystery is as old as murder. When the blood of Abel cried out for justice, the all-seeing Judge took…
10 Christmas Stories Every Father Should Read to His Children
When St. Nick drives his miniature sleigh full of toys drawn by eight tiny reindeer to the snowy housetop, and drops…
Why The Worst Christmas Story is Worth Reading
There are few Christmas stories that begin with a scene so ragged and rich as a threadbare, moth-gnawed Santa Claus who,…
Christmas
One Christmas was so much like the other, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound…
Gravediggers, Goblins, and How Dickens Discovered Christmas
Christmas has become a humbug. Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge was a sour soothsayer for our times. By and large, Christmas is a humbug these…
