Francis's teaching on capital punishment represents a discontinuity in the life of the Church. But one that highlights a deeper continuity.

Let's establish in the United States a standing, monastic seminary for the formation of prelates. 

A "law is violence" approach is anti-intellectual, anti-Western, and certainly anti-Christian since it reduces man's highest good and moral flourishing to the sum of his basest desires for self-preservation. 

We believe there's a secret option, that there are better political instincts than those that have been tried before.

Catholics in America have a special role to play, by informing an important virtue without falling into its excesses.

We're tempted to hate the other as a way of loving ourselves and our causes. That makes the hatefulness and the exaggeration feel virtuous.

We're all victims, and enablers, in a culture of addiction that's endemic to Christians as much as anyone else.

What good happens in spite of my shortcomings, because of my nature, isn't an accident, but a participation in God's life, and in his design for fatherhood.

The popes remind us that libertarian regimes create their own victims, and that we have social and political responsibilities toward them.

The affront of neo-Pelagian truths is that they replace the life of grace in favor of the quick seduction of knowledge, which if we only had access to, we would be more like God.

The present moment, both for the Church and for humanity, is one that we should entrust a bit more to "jesuitical" brilliance.

Love for ourselves is a duty, not an option, but so is love for those around us, for our societies, for all of humanity, and for the creation itself

The “Yes” victory illustrates a new, sinister rending of human being-ness from any hope for moral objectivity.

The cure to materialism is equally caustic. It affects our scientific mind, and even dimensions of our apparent psychological well-being.

In a world where the millennial seek their place and woke means, I suppose, being "really aware," confession works as the sacrament that brings us back to our calling in the present moment.

For Christians to be politically significant, we must do more than just participate in the political activities that are handed to us. We must set a political agenda through our personal choices.

Explicit consent makes sex look like a contract. We are caught in the liberal vise. 

Holiness can only consist of that particular and specific expression of seeing Christ in an encounter of charity and need.

To reduce an appealer's line or scope of appeal on major ethical issues to his family, his locality, or even his nation, strikes me as a kind of creeping, insidious totalitarianism, an overt, brutal infringement on liberty.

Rights are always for the benefit of society and never just an expression of the autonomy of an individual.