Catholic Journal

In the Company of à Kempis

My mother, both of her sisters, and their mother all had breast cancer. My Aunt Emma Jean is the...

Divergence in Daycare

Before proceeding, let me clarify the purpose of this reflection. Daycare in a time of genuine...

All Essays

The Face of Death

Many years ago, a young Monsignor was laying on his hospital gurney, only partly sedated, when his mentor, the former Archbishop of St. Louis, approached him on the way to the operating room. He devoutly said: Richard...

Peggy Noonan and Conspiracism

Attention word mavens and neologists, there is a new politically correct kid on the block and he has just joined the ever-increasing gang of psychological maledictions, such as Racism, Sexism, Ageism, Genderism ad...

Eucharistic Miracles

Much of Spain, a traditionally Catholic land, had been conquered by Muslims, known as the Moors, in the 7th and 8th centuries; for hundreds of years Catholic rulers tried to drive them out—a process only completed in...

We Are Fully Surrounded by Love

About fifty years ago, in the unsettled and confusing times following the Second Vatican Council when it seemed everything was changing or up for grabs, some priests and deacons—wanting to be trendy—changed the words...

How America Has Changed

We are all immersed in our culture, and that immersion alters our beliefs and values to some extent over time, often so slowly that we are unaware that change has occurred. A generation or two later, we may no...