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Lent and Love

What is the point of the Lenten sacrifices [1]? Why do we fast on some days, abstain from meat on others, and then also give

Nicene Guy March 14, AD 2024 No Comments

Life

The Culture War

In browsing through the latest headlines—and skimming the articles underneath them—I get the impression that the culture wars are anything but cooling down. Despite reports

Nicene Guy November 12, AD 2023 4 Comments

Columnists

What is Wrong With the World?

In the early twentieth century, a popular publication asked the question: “What is wrong with the world?” The question received several different responses, but the

Kat Larson March 26, AD 2020 5 Comments

God as Poet

By guest writer LeighAnna Schesser. Recently, a friend wrote to me saying, “I’m skimming Jesus of Nazareth and Pope Benedict XVI mentions all the mountains

Guest Writer April 26, AD 2017 3 Comments

Columnists

Science and the Evidence for God

One of the more memorable G.K. Chesterton’s “Father Brown” stories is The Resurrection of Father Brown. In this short story the titular character is “murdered”

Nicene Guy June 14, AD 2016 2 Comments

Columnists

Hope in Season

What does it mean to have hope? I keep returning to this question in my many musings. There are, in a sense, two mistakes which

Nicene Guy December 9, AD 2014 1 Comment

Books

Seven More Books for Catholic College Students

The college semester is upon us again, and at most universities the new academic year is either now beginning or has recently begun []. For

Nicene Guy August 28, AD 2014 4 Comments

Life

Depression, Despair, and Hope

Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence;

Nicene Guy August 19, AD 2014 7 Comments

Catholic Education

Searching for Truth in the Modern Academy

“Universities have failed in modern society because of their rebellion against the sacred tradition. They have become monumental pyramids, hospices for the remains of what

Nicene Guy April 29, AD 2014 7 Comments

Religion

Of Dogma and Definitions

“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may be

Nicene Guy February 4, AD 2014 No Comments

Columnists

Canonizing Chesterton, Heroic Virtue, and Ordinary Life

Saint G.K. Chesterton has a nice ring to it, so it was with some special joy that I read the report that the “sympathetic” bishop

Nicene Guy August 20, AD 2013 2 Comments

Politics

Barack Obama: Enemy of the Church?

There is a meme which is beginning to make its rounds on facebook stating simply that President Obama is an enemy of the Church. Given his tyrannical HHS mandate, which seems to be specifically targeted at Catholics…

Nicene Guy August 21, AD 2012 8 Comments

Religion