Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Choosing to be Healed

“Who here has watched The Chosen? Raise your hand.” Dan Burke looked expectantly at the audience. I glanced at his wife, Stephanie, sitting beside me. She smiled. I had not raised my hand. Why hadn’t I watched The Chosen? I tried a few times and only managed to watch the first few episodes before turning […]

Breaking the Idolatry of “Love”

If you listen to popular music, you are no doubt more than familiar with overly sentimental “love” songs. The problem with many of these tunes is that they are actually about limerence and not so much love. Limerence is a mental state where one has an obsessive longing for someone’s affection. Over and above that, […]

France Against the Zombies

Demographic decline, moral decadence, deterioration of literature and the arts…today it is politically incorrect to establish a link between these realities. The dominant idea is that there cannot be a link of cause and effect between behaviors that have again become barbaric, a suicidal demography, and a literary culture returning to a wasteland state.

Synod: From Miracle to Mirage

The recent reflections of the cardinal whom Pope Francis has put in charge of updating instructions for the Synod appears to point toward more innovations on the horizon, including the female diaconate. 

College sports association bans biological men from women’s sports

Penn University transgender swimmer Lia Thomas celebrates taking first place in the 500-yard freestyle race with a time of 4.37.32 during the championship final race in heat three during the Women’s Ivy League Swimming & Diving Championships at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Feb. 17, 2022. / Credit: JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images CNA […]

Nigerian Catholics address reasons behind ongoing violence

Year after year, Islamic extremists in Nigeria have been perpetrating massacres. And, year after year, major media outlets in the West tend to frame these incidents as general banditry or climate change-related land struggles between […]