Even in their deaths, saints often manifest the humility of Christ. I remember vividly watching one of the major news networks on September 5, 1997, the day Mother Teresa died at the age of 87. Whichever one it was had invited on the enfant terrible of New Atheist punditry, Christopher Hitchens, to discuss her life. Hitch, who had penned an attack on the Albanian nun’s work, titled naughtily The Missionary Position, was given the green light to summarize his book...

I was speaking to one of my Capuchin confreres recently who had just returned from visiting his family. He remarked that there were a number of skunks around his sister’s home. These little creatures can be quite cute. Skunks are notorious, however, for their ability to spray a liquid with a strong, unpleasant scent. God, providentially, in a manner that only He could have ingeniously conceived, gave this ability to skunks in order to protect them from predators...

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What if I told you the most powerful spiritual weapon isn't talent and charisma but humility! In this episode, I’m diving deep into the one virtue that makes you spiritually unconquerable. We’ll talk jiu-jitsu (yes, seriously), the wisdom of the Desert Fathers, the ground game of Jesus, and why humility isn’t weakness, it’s the key to strength, peace, and spiritual victory. If you’re chasing success, struggling in your marriage, or battling pride and discouragement, this episode is for you...

“Dramatic news is coming out of Sudan, particularly from Darfur. In El Fasher, numerous civilians are trapped in the city, victims of famine and violence,” Pope Leo XIV said during his General Audience on Wednesday. The Pope called for a humanitarian response for the hundreds of thousands of suffering people there. His appeal included prayers for victims of a natural disaster, in which a devastating mudslide triggered by floods this week killed over a thousand people in Sudan’s Marra Mountains in the east of the country.

Surprisingly, there exists an agreed-upon best way to educate children. The problem is that this best way is unacceptable. That’s because it is profoundly unfair, privileging those at the very top of the socioeconomic ladder. This superior method of education was well-known historically, and its effects are still seen in education research today: one-on-one tutoring.

Flannery O’Connor was a remarkable writer, who was born and passed her short life in the state of Georgia, a region beset by its “Southern Gothic” heritage, a history of slavery and passionate division, from which her own particular vision. with its Catholic undercurrents, springs. Her own religion gave her a distanced view of the peculiar culture around her...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered the largest dam ever constructed in ancient Israel. Dated to the reigns of kings Joash and Amaziah of Judah (late ninth century BCE), the dam would have drastically reshaped the city’s water system and topography, creating what is today known as the Pool of Siloam. But how exactly does this dam relate to other parts of the city’s ancient water system, and how much does it change the way we think about the development of biblical Jerusalem?

My first time teaching in DeSales University’s study abroad program, I stayed in the Roman neighborhood known as Trastevere. One day, after meeting up with my students near my apartment, we took the tram up the main road, Viale Trastevere, and were headed to “Old Rome” for dinner near Piazza Navona. At a red light, I glanced to my right and noticed the house where Dante Alighieri had lived for a time. I turned to my students, pointed at the house, and said, “Look, guys, that is the home of Dante Alighieri!” Whereupon one young fellow in the group...

On the surface, Paul Kingsnorth, Iain McGilchrist, and Mattias Desmet might seem to have little in common. Kingsnorth, based in Ireland, is an author of essays and novels. McGilchrist is a British psychiatrist, philosopher, and neuroscientist. Desmet, a professor of psychology at Belgium’s Ghent University, studies the dynamics of mass formation and totalitarian thinking. Kingsnorth is an Orthodox Christian. McGilchrist and Desmet have no formal religious affiliation...