“The stone the builders have rejected has become the cornerstone.” Psalm 118: 22 One of the most famous of all Shakespeare quotes — “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” (As You Like It)…
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi held a press conference Tuesday where she formally launched the White House Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. U.S. President Donald Trump mandated the task force through a Presidential Executive Order in February. The decision…
We columnists are the prostitutes of public debate. Yesterday we were experts on tariffs, the day before on geopolitics, and today on the Vatican curia, or even papal candidates. Now that Francis has returned to the Father’s House, the trend…
Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, much attention has turned to the selection of his successor. The next pope has a tall task before him: He must be able to offer a definitive spiritual vision for the…
Christ has been painted and sculpted by the greatest artists in the world, each in their own way, guided by their talent and their era. And there’s one thing that seems common to all: the merciful and sorrowful eyes, those…
The death of Christ on the cross is arguably the greatest event in human history, for one simple reason: It is the greatest demonstration of God’s love for us, as also of Christ’s love for us. As Paul declared, “God…
One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs is “Tangled Up in Blue,” in part because of this set of lines, both literary and spiritual: She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe. “I thought you’d never…
Bryan Johnson, you know the name. He’s the oddball biohacker injecting his son’s plasma and monitoring his erections for the sake of “optimal longevity.” But now, Johnson, a weird mix of Michael Jackson and Mark Zuckerberg, has set his sights…
I was recently sent a podcast conducted by two of my favorite thinkers: Bishop Robert Barron and Michael Knowles. It was a wide-ranging discussion of theology, philosophy, politics, culture, and film, prompted by Knowles writing the foreword to a reissue…
