It was a July night in 2003. We, the college-aged men and women lodging in two Georgetown townhouses, were sitting in our cozy circle in a small living room. My friends and I were all interning that summer, we were a formal group of Muslim interns in Washington D.C. Living in a swanky neighborhood was the upside. The downside was...

For centuries, the Catholic Church was the last bulwark standing against the tidal wave of secularism, atheism, and moral decay that was sweeping the world. As converts like G.K. Chesterton gave witness, the Catholic faith was a fighting faith---fighting against the destructive ideas and moral rot plaguing society. Yet, something happened. The Church suddenly faced her own internal revolution, and...

Those claiming the Catholic Church is dead are many. Secularists can't wait to put the last nail in the coffin of their greatest enemy and publish the obituary. Anti-Catholic protestants can't wait for the day when they can claim definitively that Rome has failed and fallen into apostasy. "See," they hope to say with glee, "you thought the gates of hell...

Can you believe it? Christmas is this week. For most of us, it has come much too quickly. We feel caught off guard and unprepared. We are in panic mode, striving to finish up last minute preparations for family dinners and parties. Yet, during this season, Holy Mother Church asks us for a different kind of preparedness, a preparedness that...