Benedict and Dietrich
When, after fifteen years of voluntary exile, Dietrich von Hildebrand managed to come back to his beloved Munich in 1948, there was much...
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Thank you, Benedict XVI
The world woke up to the news that on February 28th, 2013 at 8 p.m. the Throne of Peter will be vacant. The response was shock and...
Yes, It Can Be Wrong to be Judgmental
The changes in the liturgy since Vatican II are so striking that many of my lapsed-Catholic friends who recently have started to attend...
Reverence: the Mother of All Virtues
One of the many ethical gems that Plato has left us is to be found in his last work: The Laws—a work alas often neglected by scholars...
Have You Forgotten the Sacramentals?
Someone close to me, noticing that I was wearing a scapular, exclaimed with a mixture of pity and contempt, “I did not know that you were...
Classical Catholic Food
If anyone asked me, “What is the book on the spiritual life that you would recommend not only to beginners, but also to people who have...
Can Women Sing with a Bass Voice?
Our Holy Father has appointed a commission to examine whether or not women should be granted the diaconate. The question I raise is: Is it..
The Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, Part II
Pierre Macq, Rector of the Catholic University of Louvain (CUL), claims that the University is not in conflict with the Catholic Church...
Kierkegaard and the Contemporary Crisis
A perusal of Kierkegaard’s works is bound to strike the contemporary man with wonder: not only did the great Danish thinker pre-live the...
Aristotle: The Philosopher
One of the great contributions Aristotle has made to philosophy is his distinction between means and ends. This insight gives us a key to...
The War on Symbolism
According to Plato, "Any change except to eliminate an evil, is an evil." It is easy to caricature this assertion and label Plato a...
Tranquility or the Cross: The Dangerous Appeal of Buddhism
Innumerable men long to escape the waves of meaningless violence, and to some, Buddhism seems to offer a solution. It is associated with...
Truth or Charity?
One of the most burning topics today is the relationship existing between "truth" and "charity." I shall defend the thesis that they are...
An Audience with John Paul II
In 1980, I was granted the extraordinary privilege of a private audience with His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Knowing that John Paul had a..
The Church, the Nazis, and the Facts
Joanna Bogle's article on Cardinal von Galen ("The Bishop vs. the Nazis," February, 2008) is highly welcome. So many lies have gained...
Two Souls One Flesh: The Divine Invention of Man and Marriage is a Prodigious Mystery
When at the age of eleven, I took a course on seventeenth-century French literature—French is my beautiful mother tongue—I made the...
The Joy of Being Indebted
The word “bankruptcy” is a nightmare to finance people. Literature is eloquent on this topic. Consider Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit...
Man Alone Can Procreate
John Paul II will leave us a precious legacy: his staunch defense of life, and his theology of the body. He has succeeded in unveiling...
Suffering, A Crushing Burden: Allowing the Burden to Sanctify and Not Destroy Us
If there is one thing we all dread, it is suffering. A newborn baby will already respond with screams to any discomfort...
The Great Divide, Part 1: Love, Marriage, Sacrifice, Procreation
Many schools and universities pride themselves on having finally acknowledged that the difference between men and animals is minimal...