Christian pilgrimage is not either a private or public affair—it is both. It is a work of God shot through with divine wisdom—begun, sustained, and guided by God’s providential love. When the Christian goes on pilgrimage, he participates in something greater than himself. He participates in the eternal designs of God’s heart. This is part […]
In the transcendence of God, the truth is not a collection of dispiriting facts about our meaningless emergence from chance combinations of matter, but justice and mercy and ultimate harmony. Our approach ought to be to reveal Who God is, not to close off the way to Him. At last week’s meeting of the Philadelphia […]
By an act of almsgiving, we remedy an unjust distribution of the gift of the whole earth; we remedy, for our neighbor, what disobedience to God’s plan has wrought. Almsgiving is fitting for the forgiveness of sin because it uses money, the very tool enabling unjust distribution, for the sake of just distribution. Usually I […]
Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill, knew J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and the Inklings personally. At one memorable lunch, Sir Martin gave me his impressions of these great men and of the Oxford of their day. During my time at Hillsdale College—having arrived in the fall of 1999—the college hired a number […]
While no one collection will be able to cover all the aspects of a giant thinker such as Newman, “A Guide to John Henry Newman: His Life and Thought” does provide a very good one-stop shopping collection for those who are interested in Newman’s thought and would like something to help them think through what […]
Modern man is an empty, soulless husk, a shadow of humanity. He looks the part, and he goes through all the motions, but he does nothing of his own volition… “Where is the place of man? The question seeks answer not merely as to the place man shares in nature with all corporeal things but […]
This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 1:12–15: The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him. After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the […]
As the sun began to set on this incredible day, I looked up at the beautiful statue of Our Lady and asked her for the blessing that she promised to give to those who travel to England’s Nazareth. The Blessed Virgin invites us all to walk that trail, to trod in the footsteps of the […]
In taking his autobiographical protagonist through hell, Winston Brady does many things that would, I believe, have pleased Dante Alighieri. Like Dante’s “Inferno,” Brady’s “Inferno” tests the will and courage of its hero, forcing him to wrestle with his American identity and legacy, to understand the grave nature of sin, and to seek repentance from […]
This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 1:40–45: A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, “I do will it. Be made clean.” The leprosy left him immediately, and he […]
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