To win any war, the three most necessary things to know are: (1) that you are at war, (2) who your enemy is, and (3) what weapons or strategies can defeat him. You cannot win a war (1) if you simply sew peace banners on a battlefield, (2) if you...
Several years ago, a friend of mine told me a story about an interaction he had with his father one night after playing in a high school basketball game. In that game, my friend’s team was losing badly and he committed a lazy foul, scowled at the referee as...
Humans know two things: how things are (the World), and how they should be (the Ideal). I don’t mean that we know these things perfectly, or that every person completely agrees with every other person about what is or what ought to be. But everyone has some sense of...
You’ve probably heard of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, NY, and maybe the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C.. But perhaps the most beautiful (certainly one of the most beautiful) churches in the United States is one many people...
After a radical conversion to Christ at the age of about fifteen years old, I lived as a genuinely devout Protestant, earnestly seeking after Christ in my life as best I could. Sometimes, of course, doing a miserable job. This Easter, after a long journey, I became a Catholic. My...
