NATIONAL REVIEW | COMMENTARY By Lucia A. Silecchia
By Lucia A. Silecchia Three more years. As we celebrate Independence Day this year, I can’t help thinking that we are now in the three-year run-up to our nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026. In some ways, three years seems like a long time away. Yet, if advancing years have taught me anything, it is that time passes […]
HUMAN EVENTS | COMMENTARY By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
REASON | COMMENTARY By Stephanie Slade But Patrick Deneen’s “common-good conservatism” almost certainly would be.
By IHE Graduate Fellow Meghan Duke In his question on prayer in the Summa Theologiae,[1] Saint Thomas says that the first thing that is necessary for prayer is that we approach God and that the second is that we make a petition. We can do this, he says, in three ways: First, through an act […]
Featuring: Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau Once again, legislatures in some states are considering bans on the seal of confession. We asked the chaplain of Catholic University of America, Father Aquinas Guilbeau, to explain why we have the seal, and why breaking it won’t to anyone any good.
By Lucia A. Silecchia If it is graduation season, then it is graduation speech season, too. High schools, colleges, and even elementary schools seek out high profile speakers to impart their wisdom to graduates – or, at least, they aim to. I am a bit dubious about what a pampered celebrity or popular sports figure could […]
NATIONAL REVIEW | OPINION By: Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
As both a mother and an academic, the month of May bears a special significance to my vocation. It is, of course, the month in which we celebrate Mother’s Day, but it is also a month devoted to Mary, the Mother of God. Mary was not only a good mother: she can also rightly be […]
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