We are made for greatness; we are made to know and to love our creator; we are made for God.

The issue, then, is not that we love bad things, but that we love good things in the wrong order.

“Where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.” This statement of fact has become more and more apparent since I read it.

What I propose is not an expansion of my interests, […] but rather a translation of the successes of college life into working adulthood. 

I worry that too many Catholic youth are commodifying service to achieve another goal: admission into one of America’s elite universities.

In a culture that glorifies busyness, silences can teach us something different, and bring us closer to something infinite.

Although the phrase does not specify a religion, its meaning is unmistakably religious, raising questions about whether it blurs the constitutional line separating church and state.

Bhikkhu Bodhi speaks of two Buddhas in the earliest chapters of In the Buddha’s Words: a naturalistic, human teacher and his counterpart—a destined, divine saviour... It affirmed for me what I’d known in callower days: English could be rather beautiful.

Lately I have found myself believing more and more in the reality of the demonic.

In an anxious, achievement-driven age, Chesterton’s paradoxical wisdom calls us back to balance: to wonder over cynicism, conviction over confusion, humility over pride, and joy over despair.

Beauty is randomly distributed in life; be happy that you are not only able to experience it but treasure the surprise that comes along.

Suffering acquires a redemptive dimension as love gives meaning to suffering, whilst suffering itself reveals the true depth of love.

In seeing how dangerous Christian nationalism has been for Hungary, Hungary must serve as a warning example for how Christian nationalism has the power to dismantle democracies.

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.