Regardless of disheartening administrative decisions, something about the nature, role, and spirit of Notre Dame will always be Catholic, writes Alexandra DeSanctis.
Some Christians see that religions, including ours, decline because they deserve to, writes David Mills in this week’s editorial. That is a dangerous half-truth.
In this particularly challenging election cycle, Catholics are being presented with the claim that if they don’t vote for Trump, they are helping elect Clinton, writes Mattias Caro. That claim is false.
Her car hydroplaned into a ditch at the same place a man had died the night before. The accident made her even more anxious about her life than she was already, writes Alexandra DeSanctis, until she saw the point.
Lent is not about self-improvement, as our therapeutic culture sees it, Mattias Caro writes. It is about fighting for God’s presence in our lives.
Politicians ask for our votes because they will make the world better for our children, and they’re not wrong to do so. But Christians, explains editor Andrew Haines, must ask other questions besides “Which candidate will make me and my children richer?”
Men obsessed with their body image have started giving in to the slacker ideal, the “dad bod,” writes Mattias Caro in this week’s editorial. For Catholics, it’s what you get as a reward.
Conservatives too often speak as if the poor didn’t exist and the market did not hurt them, writes David Mills. We need to learn that when we speak of “creative destruction” we must speak of those who are creatively destroyed.
A popular self-help writer declares “It’s time to stop giving a damn” about others. The world will never get such things right, argues David Mills, and will always find itself turning to the Church to know what it knows it needs to hear.
Especially this Advent, making time for silence and contemplation can be the best way to find rest for our hurried souls, writes Alexandra DeSanctis.