Sharing life in a human and Christian way does not require that the conditions of this act be conscious. Most of the time, they live implicitly in our good will—a will that is sustained, especially in difficult moments, by a reasoned explanation. Therefore, when the Gospel says, “Take heed, watch
Noah was different. His world was different. According to the figures provided by Genesis 5, at the time when Noah’s father Lamech was born, his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was still alive, at 874 years of age—Adam. Seth, too, was alive. And so were Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, and Methuselah, all of
Amid the vicissitudes of the COVID-pandemic, another disease quietly spread through the American population: depression. A staggering 1 in 3 adults in the United States are now suffering from the affliction, a rapid elevation that shows no sign of reversal. Depression is a uniquely debilitating illness. While perhaps most readily
There was a time when Fr. Patrick Peyton was a household name. It was a time when he regularly spoke to crowds of over a million, when souls lined up to be saved and hardened hearts were transformed by grace everywhere he went. And then Rome told him to back
Just as educators nationwide hunkered down for end-of-semester grading of written assignments in December 2022, a high school English teacher published an explosive article in The Atlantic. His argument in a nutshell? ChatGPT’s AI technology has become so adept at writing basic essays on a variety of topics, that he
As I listen to the post-Dobbs public discourse about abortion and women’s health, I am reminded of the three years I spent working at a mission hospital in rural Kenya as the only obstetrician-gynecologist for over 300,000 people. Having joined my specialty in part because I was compelled by the
Alvin Plantinga is famous for developing a “free will” defense of moral evil which argued that God could have a reason for allowing that evil in light of God’s decision to create free persons. Logically speaking, the problem of evil is not a difficult problem to solve. The existence of
For nearly five decades, overturning Roe v. Wade was the Holy Grail of the pro-life movement. The midterm elections, however, have dampened many pro-lifers’ hopes: abortion rose to the top of the list of voter-determining issues, but not in our favor. What went wrong? And where do we go from