The Reality of Sin
If you’re looking for some reading to kick off this Lenten season, you could do a lot worse than this meditation from Tony Esolen: Suppose I commit a grave sin. It does not matter what sort it is. The materialist says to me, “Yes, you did wrong, according to the customs of our age, and perhaps even according to the dictates of reason, if you follow them to their conclusion,” though of course no one is going to consult a book of modern rationalist philosophy before robbing a bank or deflowering the neighbor’s daughter, and it is much to be doubted that the book...
Read MoreChastity: The Freedom to Love
Working for the Church you get to meet a lot of interesting people from a variety of backgrounds. A principal who used to be a homeless artist, a fundamentalist Baptist-turned Episcapalian-turned Roman Catholic priest, and a former restaurant manager now giving presentations on married love and family life; I have the privilege of knowing all these folks. Which is a way of saying that today I got to speak on the phone with Chris Godfrey, a former Super Bowl champion who is now running a program called Life Athletes that encourages students in live lives of virtue, abstinence, chastity, and...
Read MoreThe one thing necessary
A young friend of St. Philip Neri came to see him, and knelt by the old priest’s chair as his custom was. In reply to inquires, he said he was studying for an exam. and hoped to do well in it. The saint listened attentively to his plans for the future, nodding encouragement, while his hand played with the lad’s hair. ‘And after the exam.; what then?’ ‘Then I shall try for a degree in law.’ ‘And then?’ ‘I want to be a barrister: everyone tells me I’m cut out for it.’ ‘And then?’ ‘Well, if I make a name as a...
Read MoreCan't… Avert… Eyes!
In what can only be the final culmination of internets and religion (and a sign that surely presages the eschaton) Jeff Geerling has produced LOLSaints. I, for one, welcome our new hagiographic overloards.
Read MoreA Good Childhood
An interesting new study out of England blames the break-up of families — and the cooresponding damage inflicted on children — on the “enlightened” self-interest of parents: The wellbeing of millions of children across Britain is being damaged by adults’ aggressive pursuit of personal success, a three-year inquiry by the Children’s Society concluded today. The society – a charity allied to the Church of England – blamed the problems of young people on “a belief among adults that the prime duty of the individual is to make the most of their own...
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