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."

The solidarity found in a Catholic homeschool co-op is an important cornerstone to providing Catholic education for all families, in an affordable and quality manner.

It is beholden on Catholic schools to recognize their role as, very likely, the only true community that their students will belong to. 

Classical education is certainly against the mainstream, but as Chesterton once wrote, only a living thing can swim against the tide.

The business of educating is humiliating. It might as well be the anointed sort of humiliation. Sometimes friendship is consoling and merciful and other times it is uncomfortable and corrective.

If we can learn to see Christ in our neighbor, we will better recognize Him in the Mass and in the masses - and also at the March.

These days everything is political; thanks to social media, everything is part of the noise in our public square. We are overwhelmed.

These were little babes, full of Christ-revealed dignity.

Being pro-life means, first of all, feeling the urgency to restore the right to life of each innocent human being in law.

It is obvious that when Truth itself falls apart then morality itself decays.

The Church wastes a huge amount of her capital, her unique opportunities to speak to people who put themselves in the position of hearing what she has to say.

Doing an activity – even work – in a leisurely spirit, in an awareness of God’s presence, is one of the most useless activities we could do. 

"The more we try to ignore death, the more it fascinates us. The more we tell ourselves that mortality doesn’t apply to us, the more it surrounds us."

The sooner we reject false fatalism, the sooner we can get on with addressing the Church's deepest problems at their root.

We should demand bishops who are willing to accept their "special responsibility." And we should strive to be as harmonious as possible.

For all the failures of the American bishops, it would be foolish to suppose they're anything less than successors to the Apostles. But if we believe this, we should vigorously demand it.