Proposing An Order for Our Penitence

A recent proposal by Fr. Thomas Michelet offers a creative yet deeply traditional solution to the impasse of dealing pastorally with the divorced and remarried.

The Absurdity of Non-Transgenderism: A Critique of a Critique

When someone claims to be transgender, we need much more to say than, “No, you’re not.”

Standing For Reason

Whatever you want to do in your life, you will do it better—you will be freer to do it well—if you recognize the realities the Church has come to see through reason.

The Tests Have Failed

Standardized testing is big business, not accountable to any regular oversight. It has, in all respects, failed.

Called to Greatness: Vocation and Dignity

The Gospel, in short, calls us to a heroism of infinite consequence, offering more full-blooded variety than any bourgeois vision of respectability.

The Abolition of Marriage

Traditionalists are losing the marriage debate today because we lost it several decades ago. Most concerning of all is our persistent accommodation of no-fault divorce.

This Week — 5.4.15

From Ethika Politika, our friends, and around the web.

Discernment and Disgraced Priests

What makes a vocation yours are the moments of beauty within it; not the (sometimes trying) selection of it. The spirit, not the law, is what saves.