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To get along better with everybody — well, almost everybody — the first question to answer is “Why?” After all, aren’t there people in your life who just don’t seem that willing to get along better with you? What’s more, they seem to be okay with that. As they see it, you’re the problem. They’d be easier to get along with if you were...

In 1901, Gilbert Keith Chesterton married Frances Alice Blogg. As the Catholic world knows now, Chesterton was a prolific thinker and writer who operated through genius more than well-organized habits, and Frances (who was also a writer) often served as his secretary and kept him on track. By all accounts, including their own, they were deeply in love, and it was a sadness that they were unable to have children...

“Ain’t nobody got no sickdays?” the bus driver chuckled as he opened the door, welcoming a dozen commuters who stood freezing in the pre-dawn dark. It was the Third Sunday of Advent, and the Northeast was in the embrace of the season’s first snowpocalypse. But snow or no snow, I had to get to St. Patrick’s Cathedral to cover Mass, so off I went.

During my graduate studies, I took a long tour through modern and post-modern social philosophy. This included thinkers such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes, Bacon, Rousseau, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Marx, among others. I did this for the sake of gaining a better handle on the historical backdrop of Catholic social teaching, particularly the contributions of Pope Leo XIII...

There is a specific virtue of running a household well. For me, discovering it was one of the great fruits of studying ancient and medieval thinking. According to Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, “domestic prudence” arranges everything in one’s home life toward the true happiness of its members. This can really help us in thinking about how to celebrate Christmas. A key feature of the great virtue of prudence is how it is different from any other know-how, or practical knowledge.

Picture a football stadium full of 80,000 people. Research indicates that you will influence that many people during the course of your lifetime (even if you don't have your own YouTube channel). But who is in your stadium? And what does it sound like in there? Are people cheering for the ways you positively affected them? Are they booing for all the terrible things you did? Or are they silent because you were on your phone...

In the medieval church, folk piety was rich in the theatrical and festive observation of Christ’s nativity. We see and hear a faint echo of it down to our own times in Christmas carols, pageants, living creches, and even quasi-religious pop entertainment like A Charlie Brown Christmas. Some tend to downplay the importance of the Christmas season in comparison to Lent and Easter in the early church, but that’s just not true...

The underlying premise of feminism is that women are better off mimicking the behavior of men — and not good men who are devoted to their wives and family — but the selfish and promiscuous man committed to his career and his autonomy. Work and career ought to be women’s priority. Fifty years of this rhetoric has given us enough time to see the wreckage and the foolishness of the megachurch’s dogma that motherhood is nothing but slavery and drudgery.

On August 31, 1986, Aeromexico Flight 498 was on final approach to Los Angeles International Airport when it collided midair with a private Cessna that had drifted into restricted airspace above Cerritos, California. The impact tore both aircraft apart. All sixty-four passengers and crew aboard the DC-9 were killed. The three people in the Cessna were killed as well. Fifteen people on the ground died when the jet slammed into a quiet residential neighborhood in a massive fireball.

In a previous article, I wrote about the need for the Catholic Church to foster in the faithful a proper sense of ecclesial tradition. In that first essay, I argued against a false dialectic between a runaway progressivism that treats tradition like a Rorschach inkblot onto which one can project any interpretation one desires, and a moribund traditionalism that rejects...

The pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network has released Pope Leo XIV’s list of prayer intentions for the year 2026. Every month, Pope Leo asks Catholics around the world to pray for a particular intention. This initiative is accompanied by a video in which the pontiff expresses the reasons why he has chosen that particular intention.

In January 2023, I had the amazing opportunity to go back to the Holy Land on another self-guided pilgrimage. I still had more sites that I hadn’t yet had the opportunity to visit and/or that I hadn’t known existed until recently. When I originally planned to do the trip, I was planning to limit my trip to seeing more sites in and around Jerusalem...