Easter for faithful Christians is not about bunnies and the bloom of spring. It is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ as something infinitely greater. How important is it? In what is likely the earliest surviving creedal profession of the…
“This Holy Week, Melania and I join in prayer with Christians celebrating the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ — the living Son of God who conquered death, freed us from sin, and unlocked the gates…
In the world, you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world. John 16: 33 A thousand Easters ago, the world was in darkness. The Roman power which sustained civilization for a millennium had fallen to corruption,…
Rabbles, Riots and Ruins By Mike Aquilina (Ignatius Press, 206 pages, $16) I think I have by now read ten or so of Mr. Aquilina’s books, and find myself ever putting down his latest with a combination of satisfaction and…
The date was February 2, 2017. The event: the National Prayer Breakfast. The speaker was the new president of the United States: Donald J. Trump. Conservatives, Christians, and many religious Americans generally were keenly interested in what the new president…
Young men are simply not signing up to become priests — certainly not in the numbers that they used to. According to the Vatican’s Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae, the past 12 years have seen a continuing decline in the number of…
Christianity may be fading in America, but in 2024, it helped put Donald Trump back in the White House. Evangelicals, Catholics, and other Christian voters backed him in even greater numbers than before. This fact, I suggest, is not lost on the…
One of the grandest achievements of America’s Founding Fathers was the establishment of a political regime dedicated to the securing the rights granted to all human beings by both nature and God, including the right to the “free exercise” of…
When rattling off the names of those who have played a pivotal role in shaping Western civilization, figures such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Henry V, Christopher Columbus, William Shakespeare, the American Founding Fathers, Napoleon…
