Modernity/Secularism

Women and Redemption

Any reverent reading of Genesis sheds abundant light on the key role played by women in the economy of redemption. She was created last...

A Plea: Back to Socratic Paganism

In the wake of Vatican II, the Church found herself in a state of turmoil. Everything was challenged; everything was put up for grabs....

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...

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...

Long Live Bareness

The trial Jewish women dreaded most was barrenness. To be unable to conceive was considered not only tragic but also shameful. Let us...

Omosessualit

Hell is the place where love is banished. Understandably, the Evil One not only loathes the very word, but moreover, animated by his...

In Defense of Discrimination

Years ago, the word “discrimination” was primarily used to make intelligent distinctions. A discriminating person was one capable of...

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 Disease of Irreverence

Many sicknesses are contagious; health is not. It is regrettable, but it is a fact. Since original sin, intellectual viruses have...

The Moral Weight of Words

Man's nobility and greatness are expressed by his capacity to use words that enable him to communicate with his neighbors. One of the...

Freedom of Conscience

A glance cast at the religious literature of the last decade will immediately reveal the emphasis laid on freedom of conscience. Never...

Truth or Panic

From the very moment of our birth, we have a tacit (if unconscious) awareness of the precariousness of our metaphysical situation....

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...

Holy Discrimination

Up to some forty years ago, the word "discrimination" had a positive ring. A discriminating person was someone who was subtle, capable of...

A Touch of Metaphysical Humor

“Freedom of choice” has conquered the heart of modern man. To him it signifies liberation from all mediaeval taboos that for centuries...

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...

We Will Be Judged by our Ability to Accept Defeat

I wonder whether former President Bill Clinton has ever given a speech without mentioning “the American Dream.” The dream to which...

The Secular War on the Supernatural

In 1965 my husband Dietrich von Hildebrand and I had a private audience with Pope Paul VI, in which my husband "shot from the hip" as...

Ingratitude: The Forgotten Sin

I recall vividly that in my early teens I read the memoirs of a priest who, aged 70, bitterly lamented his ingratitude toward his mother...

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