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The power of fear and hubris are significant independently, but when combined they create disastrous consequences.

It is one of the greatest joys of my life to share with children about the immense love of Jesus in the Eucharist.

We live in a world where people rage at others, and many rage at Christianity in general and the Catholic Church in particular.

He was no fan of Catholicism, but he gave us our due.

Saint Francis of Assisi purportedly instructed his followers to "preach the Gospel always and if necessary, use words."

Adele Dirsyte was born in Lithuania, the youngest of six children in a farming family.

In the second century, St. Irenaeus taught that “the Son of God became the Son of man, so that man … might become a son of God.”

It's coincidental that Abraham Lincoln’s birthday falls two days shy of Valentine’s Day, and few would look to our 16th president for wisdom in romance.

For some reason, it was around our 10th kid that people stopped asking, “Do you know what causes that?” or told me to get a television.

This spring or summer, the Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Mississippi’s 15-week abortion limit, and pre-viability limits on abortion generally, are constitutional.

November begins with All Saints’ Day and is immediately followed by All Souls’ Day. My wife and I would go to those services annually. I went last November, but without her, as she had died the previous July.

Philosopher Ed Feser recently wrote that modern society is Oedipal, seeking to kill the father and defile the mother. It is a tidy summation of the twin targets of the woke movement: authority and innocence.

Catholic religious education for adults is at its heart the quest to be a lifelong learner of our precious faith. Scripture tells us the key to such an adventure: “With humility comes wisdom” (Prov 11:2).

In mid-May, finally free from nearly a year of lockdown that cancelled all my speaking engagements, I spoke to three Legatus chapters: Lexington, Louisville, and Indianapolis.

Religion and politics, we are told, are the two subjects off-limits from general conversations—the kind of conversations often had in the workplace.

Where were you when COVID disrupted your life?

The foster father of Christ has no recorded dialogue in the Gospels. But his unmistakable godliness and manhood is iconic for eternity - and especially noteworthy today when authentic masculinity is so often disparaged.

The present crisis in America is broad and deep. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated an existing crisis in which politics, morality, and religion are divided to the point that dialogue no longer seems possible. There seems little hope for a solution from within. Political parties, ethicists, and the clergy are at war with each other. Can there be a solution from the outside, above the fray?

We've been through a year of lockdowns, job loss, racial conflict, COVID anxiety, and political turmoil. As Archbishop Charles Chaput often said — his latest book, Things Worth Dying For, is well worth reading — we live in difficult times.

The past year has caused employment challenges for many in the United States in a variety of industries, with one of the hardest-hit groups being recent college graduates seeking professional starts.