Radically Catholic in the Age of Francis is important reading for anyone invested on any side of the debate described by Patrick Deneen as “A Catholic Showdown Worth Watching.”

Paul Ryan’s development with respect to poverty demonstrates that personal encounter and patience are far more effective than partisan confrontation.

I sometimes wonder if the “priesthood question” doesn’t veil a lingering clericalism.

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

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.

Extravagant Fridays and rushed Sundays are not just inverses of tempered Fridays and joyful Sundays; the two ways of living are often rooted in different, nearly opposed, habits of character.

We might identify with the “good thief,” St. Dismas, a model of repentance and humility.

The courses apparently being considered as counting toward a theology requirement either already have their own place in the core curriculum or are too advanced to fit comfortably as part of it.