This past Saturday our diocese ordained two men to the sacred priesthood. More specifically, His Eminence Francis Cardinal George of Chicago ordained the men as our diocese awaits the installation of Bishop Paprocki on June 22. Rev. Msgr. Carl Kemme, our diocesan administrator, delivered the homily and I have to say: it probably ranks in [...]

Respect has no substitute; neither assistance nor obedience nor love can supply it or take its place It may happen that children are no longer obliged to help their parents; they may be justified in not obeying them; the circumstances may be such that they no longer have love or affection for them; but respect [...]

I don’t often link to other commentary on the web (the best way to find out what I’m reading on a given day is to follow me on Twitter), but this piece by Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., about whether to leave  the Church in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal is too good to pass [...]

I’m a fan of the blog The Art of Manliness, which offers a useful counter to the dominate male images of our consumer culture. Brett McKay, the site’s founder, has reported on what he calls a “Menaissance,” a movement to re-establish a more classical understanding of men based on the values and style of the [...]

Every time I read an interview with Lori Gottlieb, author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, I like her a little more: Men and women were asked, if they [had] any deal-breakers for going on a second date, what would those be? And men named three. If she’s cute enough… [...]

This year’s relevancies are often next year’s embarrassments. One who does not appreciate this should meditate on the Nehru Jacket and Death of God movement. The liturgy frees one from such compulsions. It must not succumb to them. – Aidan Kavanaugh, Elements of Rite (1982, Pueblo)

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 [...]

“The lethal logic of Roe v. Wade is that nobody has rights that we are bound to respect if they cannot effectively assert those rights. They are at the mercy and the discretion of those who can effectively assert their rights. We’re not talking simply about the unborn, we’re talking about the aged, the radically [...]

No one can lay God and the Kingdom on the table before another man; even the believer cannot do it for himself. But however strongly unbelief may feel itself thereby justified it cannot forget the eerie feeling induced by the words “Yet perhaps it is true.” That perhaps is the unavoidable temptation which it cannot [...]

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus passed into eternal life this morning, reminding us once again that death is the fate of all men: We are born to die. Not that death is the purpose of our being born, but we are born toward death, and in each of our lives the work of dying is already [...]