Pluralists can’t account for non-material realities like numbers, mathematics, citizenship, honor, love, or a host of others. We can, and we do it by knowing Jesus, and Him crucified.

Thank God for people like Fred Hoyle and C.S. Lewis. Thank God even more for the many, many people who prayed that people like Fred Hoyle and C.S. Lewis would come along.

When Jesus comes He should find us doing the things that He talked about most – bearing witness, making disciples, feeding the hungry, and loving one another.

Arguments about language are almost never about language, but are proxies for arguments about the gospel’s proclamation.

When the Bible describes great beauty like the glory of God, it refers not just to the intensity of light – light that merely blinds isn’t generally experienced as beautiful. It refers rather to its brightness (in Latin claritas). You don’t just see it, but by it you see everything else.

Reading, by its very nature, therefore, transports us to a place that “eye hath not seen and ear hath not heard,” a place where technology is no help to find our way. That’s just the kind of place where all meaning lives.

God isn’t kidding around, and He isn’t waiting around, not even when spouses die. Discipleship always follows us. Everywhere.

The world needs to know what we are, and so we must be, as conspicuously as possible, people of deep holiness and equally deep compassion, and so a true household of God. The world needs to know as well what we see when we look at them, and so we need to examine the world carefully, and just as carefully treat the wounds we see with the medicine of grace.

It fits that at the end of Mary’s life she was assumed, body and soul, into heaven, and it would be unfitting to believe that while some of her DNA is in heaven, the rest of it was condemned simply to rot after her earthly death.

Saints are made first and foremost by lives of heroic virtue and holiness. Saints are also made by people talking about them

Have you ever been caught being a Christian? Have you ever been caught red-handed by people who weren’t expecting you to do it, doing a strange thing so that they would understand?

It may not be a reasoned argument that gets young people out from behind their screens, but the attractiveness of simple virtue.

If we seek God and everything else, God and anything else, we run the grave risk of seeking God less, seeking heaven not enough.

God, in His “still, small voice”, provided Elijah with a helper, and a successor, Elisha. Perhaps scientists are some of the helpers God is providing now

Hundreds of thousands of Rosaries are prayed every day for protection, salvation, and the renewal of the world.

Many don’t read slowly, many more don’t read at all. And because we don’t take the time to think in order to speak, or read, or write, the words that come out are often full of snark, slash, and spite.

J. Budziszewski finally recognized the Savior that he had abandoned, and as it turned out, it was just in the nick of time.

Most of the spiritual and moral problems people will ever have can be resolved if they remember that all sin is death, all salvation is grace, and all ethics is gratitude.

Writing has always been a way of storing information, a recognition of our tendency to forget even very important things.