Catholic Stand

Our culture’s panic over judgment—its trigger warnings and therapeutic euphemisms—reveals a terrifying truth: we have mistaken amnesia for enlightenment. We have forgotten the posture of Our Lord. Modern man imagines God as a cosmic authoritarian whose laws threaten his freedom, yet Holy Thursday confronts us with something far more disarming: the Creator kneeling before His ...

There is a moment in the Gospel where Pontius Pilate looks at Christ and asks a question that feels less like philosophy and more like exhaustion:

“What is truth?”

I used to read that line as a kind of intellectual failure. Now I read it as a man standing at the edge of something he cannot reconcile. And if I’m being honest… lately, I feel closer to Pil...

Decades ago, I was surprised to discover that motherhood—especially mothering a large family—could be deeply challenging, meaningful, and fulfilling. The environment I was raised in did not look favourably on large families. When my grandfather learned I had decided to marry a Catholic, he was aghast. “My God, how did she get into that mess? ...

Middle schoolers love dirty words. A few weeks ago, I chaperoned a bunch of them on a trip to Tybee Island. Riding home with my best friend Andy (the middle school principal), the eighth-grade boys in the van started talking s***. Not in a disrespectful way. One of the boys just asked Andy if there’s ever a time when it’s appropriate to say that word. He used the word...

In 1888 Pope Leo XIII wrote an encyclical about Freedom called Libertas. He did so because he considered so...