Category: Catholic Church
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When a Civilization Loses Its Horror of Abortion
There are moments when a society does not merely change its laws; it changes what it is capable of seeing. Abortion is one of those questions. The Catholic Church does not oppose abortion because of political fashion, nostalgia, or hostility toward women. She opposes it because an innocent human life is deliberately destroyed. Beneath every…
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The World Hated Him First
The Richmond Catholic Memo, the machinery of suspicion, and why the Church Christ founded will always be an enemy of the spirit of the age “If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.”— John 15:18, Douay-Rheims There is a temptation whenever Catholics discover something like the FBI’s Richmond Catholic…
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Michelangelo, the Catholic Church, and the Mysteries Hidden in His Art
Michelangelo Buonarroti was not simply one of the greatest artists who ever lived. He was also a man whose life became inseparably connected with the Catholic Church. Born in AD 1475, Michelangelo lived during one of the most dramatic periods in Church history. Renaissance Rome was filled with extraordinary beauty, political struggle, corruption, reform movements,…
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Amen, Amen: Faith, Works, Sacraments, and the Gospel of John
Brothers and sisters in Christ, and especially my Protestant brothers and sisters, I want to begin with a simple question. If every outward action connected with salvation is dismissed as a “work,” then what do we do with the Gospel of John? When we read John carefully, we find that Jesus repeatedly presents divine grace…
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The Papacy: A Claim Every Christian Must Examine
Can we first agree on two basic principles? First, if the Catholic Church is right that Jesus Christ established the papacy, then every Christian should seek full communion with the Catholic Church. We would not be free to reject an authority that Christ Himself established. Second, if the papacy is an invention built upon a…
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Why Be Catholic?
If Christianity Is True, What Comes Next? Suppose for a moment that Christianity is true. Suppose Jesus of Nazareth really is who He claimed to be. Suppose He truly rose from the dead. A new question immediately emerges: Which Christian Church did Christ establish? This question matters because Jesus did not simply leave behind a…
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Babylon, the Beast, and the Shepherd Who Would Not Flee
A Meditation on Empire, Martyrdom, and the Victory of the Lamb When the Book of Revelation is read carefully—not as a codebook for modern anxieties, but as a first-century Christian text written for suffering believers—its world comes sharply into focus. This is not a book written in abstraction. It is written in blood and fire,…
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St. Thomas Aquinas: The Original Digital Thinker
The Doctor of the Church. Deep Thinker. Truth Seeker. Let’s Dive Into His Timeless Wisdom. If St. Thomas Aquinas were alive today, he might not have a smartphone in his pocket, but he would certainly have a mind perfectly suited for the digital age. In a world overflowing with information, opinions, and endless content, Aquinas…
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Finding God in the Algorithm
A Meditation on Divine Providence and the Digital Mission Field At first glance, the internet can seem like the very opposite of order. Endless scrolling, conflicting opinions, viral trends, distractions, misinformation, and noise fill our screens every day. Algorithms appear to govern what we see, what we read, and even what captures our attention. It…
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Why the Bad Popes Saved Rome
When we think of the Papacy, we often imagine an unbroken line of venerable leaders. History, however, tells a much more complex—and often scandalous—story. How could the Church endure, let alone solidify its power, through periods governed by what E.R. Chamberlin, in The Bad Popes, calls some of the most corrupt men ever to sit…