7 teachings on Hell from St. Thomas Aquinas...
Msgr. Charles Pope
The teachings of the Lord on Hell are difficult, especially in today’s climate. The most difficult questions that arise relate to its eternal nature and how to square its existence with a God who is loving and rich in mercy. First, does God love the souls in Hell? Yes. How could they continue to exist if He did not love them, sustain them, and continue to provide for them? God loves because He is love...

The Catholic Church is truly “intersectional.” Abortion doulas and their supporters are not...
Daniel Philpott
An abortion doula and a historian of transgenderism ardently advocated abortion rights Monday on a zoom panel here at the University of Notre Dame titled “Reproductive Justice: Scholarship for Solidarity and Social Change.” The freedom to have abortions intersects with women’s autonomy, racial justice, and transgenderism, they argued. Intersectionality is a popular concept now in academia.

The good news about Substack, Germany, and firing squads...
Ed Condon
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee announced Wednesday that a priest has lost the faculty to hear confessions, after he argued in favor of a bill that would force priests to violate the seal. Fr. James Connell, who is retired from active ministry but previously served as vice-chancellor of the Milwaukee archdiocese, wrote an op-ed in a Delaware newspaper last week, arguing in favor of a state law to repeal the priest-penitent privilege.

You think your bacon is crispy, but I’m here to tell you: It could be even crispier. Here’s the trick...

There’s nothing like sharing insights with a friend. So why is it so difficult?
John Cuddeback
One of the great paradoxes of our day is that with seemingly limitless outlets for ‘sharing’ thoughts, so little deep sharing actually happens. We are often stifled, cut off, and isolated. In the cacophony of words, it is difficult to say the things we want to say. We are beginning to realize that the tools billed as making connections have in fact undermined them, with devastating consequences even in our close relationships.

“Dad jokes? That’s the way eye roll”: Why this much-maligned art form is actually good for kids...

Naaman, the Nazarenes, and the Germans...

William Shakespeare Was a Defiant Catholic to the Last...
Joseph Pearce
The 2018 film, All is True, starring Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare and Ian McKellen as Shakespeare’s patron, the Earl of Southampton, purports to be a depiction of the Bard’s final years in Stratford following his retirement from the London stage. Making no effort to remain true to the known facts of Shakespeare’s life, preferring instead to follow the path of pride and anti-Catholic prejudice, All is True reinvents him in the image of our own deplorable epoch.

Oxford University scientists warn women of new research “nobody wants to hear”: The Pill causes breast cancer...

Do not fear: The confessional seal will always remain inviolable...
Jeff Mirus
Unless you’ve been living in your crawl space, you know that the sacramental seal of the confessional has been increasingly under attack in recent years, especially amid the growing recognition of child sexual abuse throughout our society, including among Catholic clergy. One may well be astonished at the modern world’s inability to connect the dots between disordered sexuality generally and child sexual abuse in particular...

Don’t blast the media. Engage!...
Kathryn Jean Lopez
As I write, I’m about to speak for the second time in a week about the media. Both invitations, at two very different conferences, I almost turned down, because I don’t think much about the media. I obviously work in it. I’m tremendously grateful to have platforms to highlight the good and to work through contentious issues. But early on in my life as an opinion journalist...

Should the Moon have its own time zone?

Here’s how to define “wokeness”...

Fry pizza, add Marmite to roast potatoes: 27 eye-opening and invaluable tips from top chefs...

This epic NASA map shows where you can see two US solar eclipses in 2023 and 2024...

The news, the glory of God, and St. Benedict’s holy death...

Vatican Largely Silent as China Forces Catholics to ‘Adapt to Socialist Society’...