Thomas Storck writes with great clarity, and is able to make extremely complicated topics understandable to the average reader. In his collection of essays, From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond, he takes on one of the most complicated topics imaginable, the centuries-long (and still unfolding) disintegration of Western civilization, or…
Category: Faith
Without God, we are faced with the horrible choice of living in a dreamlike fantasy world or in a nightmarish reality. News, entertainment, sports and politics are designed to amuse and distract us. In many ways, today’s news and politics are also designed to infuriate and separate us over issues that…
The popular view is that religion should adapt to the times. The unpopular view is that the times should adapt to religion. This is the central issue confronting the Catholic Church right now, but I suspect the tensions have existed above or beneath the surface in all faiths throughout time.…
Lent is great season, my favorite one of the year. Lent is an opportunity to empty myself of me, so as to make room for God. Prayer is an opportunity to express gratitude for all of God’s gifts — gifts all too easy to take for granted when pride and…