A reader writes in worried about what type of educational choice is best for his kids, especially as a thoughtful Catholic parent. You ask. EP responds. 

To affirm that “God is” and live in this awesome reality is the challenge of discipleship.

“We achieve fulfilment when we break down walls and our heart is filled with faces and names!” 

It takes a certain level of detachment to let the next generation take up traditions, but that in the end, it serves a greater good of actually keeping the tradition alive. 

No matter what we achieve, the perfect and ideal is still outside of our grasp.

At the root of devotional practices is the devotees’ deep awareness of their need for the Mystery of God’s infinite love

Hildebrand is deeply invested in helping us see that beauty is objective, external, and disinterested.

The unspoken commencement address we should hear each year. 

God delights in us. It's a strange concept really.

It’s hard to become political absolutists when we share community with others of unlike mind.

Don’t make a half-assed nod at prayer and then say it can’t change anything.

Remember the legacy of two great professors of theology in the Commonwealth of Virginia. 

"Pep talks and rallies don’t make a man feel like a man. At most, I think, they make men feel like they’re feeling like men."

The remorse we strive for in Lent builds the anticipation of the Gloria of Easter. 

Lent should not be a “over and done with” season, but should be a time of forming a virtuous life in Christ.

Nothing in the faith is self-evidently understandable. We require the community of the Church to grow in the gift of faith. 

Betrotheds need accompaniment so as to make that vocational leap of faith that turns their relationship into a sacrament. 

Are the sins of His shepherds enough to oust Christ from the institution He entrusted to Peter on the shore of the Sea of Galilee all those years ago?

The most important decision for any Catholic parent: can the school be trusted to hand on the faith?

"Even I have trouble explaining to my family that we are not about killing babies."