I used to quip that the best way to eliminate crime was to legalize it. Now vice has almost reached the status of a virtue. What had been considered shoplifting is treated as mere shopping, as long as it is under $900. Randomly beating people up on...
In the early 1900s, Anthony, a young Italian immigrant to the United States, was being screened at New York’s Ellis Island. In those days, one requirement for entry into the country was having at least twenty dollars to ensure that you could support...
The two long pages of the Gospel of Matthew (5:17-37)can be summarized thusly: “if you are dissatisfied with people and situations, a lot depends on you and on your inner disposition.” Hence, to achieve lasting changes in people and situations, we...
Virtue may be defined simply as doing the right thing and heroic virtue as doing the right thing at great personal cost. Some claim virtue is always in short supply because opposing behaviors such as malice, complacency, indifference...
“For us, after God, the greatest love is Poland” – Bl. Stefan Wyszyński In the sixteenth century St. John of the Cross said: “The Lord has always revealed the treasures of his wisdom and his spirit to mortals, but now that evil is...
Many ideas that used to be considered absurd are now considered wise. For example, the idea that disbanding police departments will make people safer. Or that increased government spending will reduce inflation. Or that persuading groups of citizens...
“For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother.” (Matthew 12:50) Obedience in modern secular society brings to mind negative connotations. This is because worldly people treasure individual freedom above...
“Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.” (John 19: 1) The visions of the 19th century German mystic, Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, vividly depict the flagellation of Christ. All in all very few realize that the fact that the body of...
