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AI Relationships, Screen Time, and Loneliness
We all desire to love and be loved. We were made for it. But the advancement of AI relationships and time on screens is counterproductive.
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Capturing a Misfit: A Review of “Wildcat”
In the film "Wildcat," Maya Hawke captures the raw, desperate, and holy desire of Flannery O’Connor to both serve God and be a great writer.
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The Infinite Dignity of the Disabled
There may be no other magisterial document as thorough in its defense of the dignity of those with disabilities than Dignitas Infinita.
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Dignitas Infinita: What’s the Gist?
Dignitas Infinita urges that respect for human dignity beyond all circumstances be at the center of the commitment to the common good and of every legal system.
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Let Lent Be Lent!
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My Experience of the Synod
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As I Leave for the Synod on Synodality
Meet the New Goddess, Same as the Old Goddess
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Thoughts on World Youth Day in Lisbon
Oppenheimer’s Frown
World Youth Day and Converting Everyone to Christ
St. Irenaeus and the God Who Doesn’t Need Us
“Mrs. Davis” and Getting Off the Grid
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Author Sarah Law on St. Thérèse, Literature, and the Sacred
4 Takeaways for Us Today from St. Catherine of Siena
Human Dignity and the Abuse of Language
Navigating AI with Lonergan’s Transcendental Precepts
Aesthetic Criticism vs. Frui in the Liturgy
Systole and Diastole: Action and Contemplation
Trans America: The Historical Roots of Contemporary Gender Ideology
How to Believe in God: A Philosophical Approach for the Sincerely Disposed Skeptic
Veil to Unveil: Aquinas on the Mystery of the Mass
A Ratzingerian Reading of Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun”
How Should Catholics Think About the Immigration Crisis?
Fandom in Search of Enchantment
What Can I Do? Mary Delaney and Malta Camp USA
Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson on Dogma
Katy Carl on Contemporary Catholic Fiction: Part II
Katy Carl on Contemporary Catholic Fiction: Part I
Is Art Worth Dying For? The Story of the Monuments Men
Divine Mercy Sunday, the Crown of Our Easter Celebration
Recovering the Common Good for Ethical AI Design
Modern Technology: The World as Standing Reserve
He Saw the Cloths and Believed
Developing a Vision of the Good
Awaken the Sleepers
The Blood of the Lamb and the Light in Their Eyes
Contemplating the Cross
Where Charity and Love Are, God Is There
Are We in a Post-Truth World?
We Can Console Jesus
Flawed Objections to Marian Apparitions
A Parable from the Science Textbook: The Magnet of the Trinity
Prenatal Testing and Abortion in a Post-Roe World
Abortion, Slavery, and the Image of God
Dom Raso: SEAL Team Six Operator, Warrior for God
Theology in Community: Meet Dr. Richard DeClue
4 Lessons from St. Patrick of Ireland
Tradwives, Kate Middleton, and Tradition
“Calvary”: A Very Lenten Movie
Get Married, or at Least Read This Book
Parents Must Wake Up to the Dangers of Screen Addiction
Beyond Computation: The Human Spirit in the Age of AI
“Cabrini” Is Taking Over Theaters—and Overtaking Divisions
How I Fell in Love with St. Thomas Aquinas
The Keys to the Kingdom: A Gentle But Firm Correction to “The Chosen”
