Moral Questions Regarding Voting

By |2024-11-01T17:19:27-05:00November 1st, 2024|Categories: American Republic, Catholicism, Politics, Religion|

As Election Day approaches, many have raised serious moral questions regarding how to vote. Sadly, in our great nation, we confront a situation in which both major political parties espouse certain agenda which are flagrantly contrary to the most fundamental tenets of the moral law, agenda against the inviolable dignity of innocent and defenseless human [...]

Knight of Malta and Shield of Europe

By |2024-10-27T20:50:27-05:00October 27th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, History, Islam, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

There was a time, a far healthier time, when the heroism of those who defended Malta from the Islamic onslaught was lauded by the whole Christian world. Jean Parisot de Valette All saints are heroes, but not all heroes are saints. There are some who have made great sacrifices for Christendom while not [...]

Islam and Western Civilization

By |2024-09-10T17:12:49-05:00September 10th, 2024|Categories: Christianity, Islam, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

The seven pillars of Western Civilization are the edifying edifices which tower over the landscape of the centuries as a fortress of faith and a beacon of reason. Islam has served throughout the centuries as an outside force which has repeatedly laid siege to the fortress, seeking its overthrow. Several weeks ago I wrote an [...]

Three Things That Make This Election Cycle Surreal

By |2024-09-08T17:53:45-05:00September 8th, 2024|Categories: American Republic, John Horvat, Politics, Religion|

What makes this election year so strange is a greater shift away from reality. The election seems like a show, not a civic duty. Candidates are more like actors than future public servants. It all seems so staged. Everything is choreographed to improve poll numbers and ignore issues. However, the main reason things are surreal [...]

How Christianity Civilized Mankind

By |2024-08-31T14:58:07-05:00August 31st, 2024|Categories: Bruce Frohnen, Christianity, Civil Society, Featured, Religion, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

As we dispense with religious institutions, beliefs, and practices—as we dispense with God Himself in the ridiculous belief that we are enough on our own—we leave ourselves open to barbarism within and a more overt barbarism from without. Anyone who knows anything about the Judeo-Christian tradition (an increasingly small group, I know), is aware that [...]

Saint Augustine on Figurative Language in Scripture

By |2024-08-27T19:05:04-05:00August 27th, 2024|Categories: Bible, Christianity, Christine Norvell, Culture, Education, Religion, Senior Contributors, St. Augustine, Theology, Timeless Essays|

When trying to understand Scripture, we need to establish an analysis of concrete terms. But if we aren’t careful, we just might explain away the beauty of descriptive language in the Bible. Saint Augustine of Hippo encountered the same issue, and not just among his youngest students. In humanities coursework, we often train students to [...]

The Essential Paul Elmer More

By |2024-08-23T18:00:56-05:00August 23rd, 2024|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christian Humanism, Christianity, Paul Elmer More, Religion, Theology|

There are few twentieth-century intellectual figures to whom one might apply the adjective “essential.” One of the earliest is Paul Elmer More, perhaps the last century’s greatest Christian apologist. The final appeal of the humanist is not to any historical convention but to intuition. —Irving Babbitt, “Humanism: An Essay at Definition” in Norman Forester, Humanism [...]

Almost Sacraments

By |2024-08-17T13:38:00-05:00August 17th, 2024|Categories: Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, History, Theology|

What do we make of the four “Almost Sacraments”? Among other things, we might note how they bear upon a common interest that is, sadly, more and more neglected in today’s Church: young men. How many sacraments are there anyway? Seven? Two? Two-and-a-half? If you are Roman Catholic today, your Church has handed down this [...]

Men Have Forgotten God

By |2024-08-02T12:38:23-05:00August 2nd, 2024|Categories: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Culture, Religion, Russia, Timeless Essays|

To the ill-considered hopes of the last two centuries, which have reduced us to insignificance and brought us to the brink of nuclear and non-nuclear death, we can propose only a determined quest for the warm hand of God, which we have so rashly and self-confidently spurned. More than half a century ago, while I [...]

The War of the Gods and Demons

By |2025-11-17T18:43:28-06:00July 23rd, 2024|Categories: Aeneas, Aeneid, Culture, Fiction, Literature, Louis Markos, Religion, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays, Virgil|

Playwright David Lane has graced the Christian community with a formal, blank-verse play that takes up the war of gods and demons. “Dido: The Tragedy of a Woman” retells the tragic tale of the “Aeneid,” but with some dramatic plot twists that allow it to function both as a timeless meditation on the universal issues of [...]

Making America Great Again: Orestes Brownson on National Greatness

By |2024-07-16T20:06:32-05:00July 16th, 2024|Categories: American Republic, Catholicism, Government, Natural Law, Politics, Religion, Timeless Essays|

It’s time for Orestes Brownson to re-enter our contemporary political discourse, and on the campaign trail to remind us, first, that all just authority is from God, who instituted natural law, and also, that moral authority is not relative. I. The Brownson Revival In 1993 Peter J. Stanlis revisited Orestes Brownson’s political thought by reviewing [...]

The Challenge of Secularization

By |2024-07-05T14:11:24-05:00July 5th, 2024|Categories: Christendom, Christianity, Communio, England, Islam, Morality, Secularism, Timeless Essays|

What the faith of the Catholic Church can offer is a framework—intellectual, imaginative, and moral—for the pursuit of all the good that pertains to human destiny, and its effective bestowal in the grace of conversion. The Church civilizes while she evangelizes. But she evangelizes first. Secularisation is far more of a challenge to Christianity in [...]

An Empire Like No Other

By |2024-07-01T19:11:06-05:00July 1st, 2024|Categories: Christendom, Christianity, Christopher Dawson, Christopher Morrissey, Cluny, Featured, Rome, Theology, Timeless Essays|

The Roman Empire was unique because it espoused the principle of moderation in politics. This is what permitted the unique dynamism of a uniquely changing but uniquely enduring political form: from city, to empire, to nation. And that dynamism may still propel us today as a principle of rebirth, if only we recapture its essence. [...]

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