Today's beauty industrial complex — filters, fillers, and constant self-surveillance — echoes a disturbing historical pattern where bodies become sites of classification, modification, and control.

The way is hard, but the end is light. Augustine reminds us that healing the mind and finding truth requires not just reason, but divine assistance.

As the Veritas Conference drew to a close, I began to reflect about my own calling into vocational pastoral ministry, and what exactly the purpose of the Church and ministry is.

If lower forms of life seem to have some level of experience, judgment, and empathy, then are humans not special in kind, but only in the degree of their rational capacities?

As I was reading through the comments on news articles reporting on one public tragedy after another, I was struck by the polarizing reactions. Rather than unifying around shared grief or compassion, today’s public tragedies often reveal and sometimes deepen societal rifts.

Today, tensions between Russia and the West are as high as ever. Scholars continue to ponder why Russia has developed differently than the west, despite being adjacent to it.

After I read The Divine Comedy, I became fascinated by both the poem and the poet. So when I graduated from high school the following year, my family and I decided to visit Italy.

An encounter with beauty this summer gave me a deeper appreciation for its presence in everyday's ordinaries.

Last year, I made the decision to undertake the complete consecration to Jesus through Mary according to the method laid out by Saint Louis de Montfort.

While I was always familiar with this verse, I only recently considered why God chose to begin with light. Not sound, not water, not food, not love. Light.

In Southern culture, three fundamental values hold incredible significance: Faith, Family, and Football. As Thanksgiving approaches each year, we add another essential element to that list: "Food."

Does time exist? One question from my recent reading endeavor The Sound and the Fury stayed with me as I went through my day.

One time in prayer, Jesus and I bonded over how much we love understanding spiritual truths through what we witness in nature.

Our collective moral agency has been lost due to the majority of society denying the possibility for creating formal opportunities to discuss moral questions in social contexts.

I do believe in destiny or fate. Not in the sense that what I had for lunch today was determined by God before I was born, but in the sense that our birth has largely determined our education, socioeconomic status, and even longevity.

Economists model us as utility maximizing and rational, assuming a certain structure of preferences, but are we really rational when we happen to act like the models assume?

He had been continuously hurt through his various attempts, yet the one thing that remained unscathed was his determination.

It is all too easy to write off the elderly as “senile” or “childish” when in reality, there is truly a lifetime of experiences in each one of them, asking to be heard.

In his most famous book, I and Thou, the late 19th century Austrian philosopher Martin Buber considers what it means to treat someone as fully human and what true encounters with the other look like.

Not only are we failing to build in a way that is sustainable, but we are also not building in a way that will stay with us. We create just to last the decade, rather than to last a lifetime.