In Michael Pakaluk’s The Shock of Holiness, moms at Mass are heroes—not unlike the soldiers who landed at Iwo Jima. Children open us up to radical charity—the kind lived by martyrs. Obscure priests in backwoods France can change the world—not by debating, but by loving God. And a little bottle of holy water—available for free […]

Peter talk from the Worcester Men’s Conference about why the great saints considered themselves Great Sinners.

Ida Friederike Görres was one of the brightest, most penetrating and colorful Catholic writers in twentieth-century Europe. Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), at her funeral, labeled her a “brave and faithful woman,” with “an insightful certainty . . . about the pressing questions and tasks of the Church today.” Yet her work is almost entirely […]