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Mental health and the alarming rise of suicides among young people--most wouldn’t consider these to...

The school where I teach spent the summer debating whether or not to attempt a...

“I used to distract myself,” writes James Baldwin in his 1964 essay Nothing Personal, “some...

“The Pope said something about gay.” *cue media firestorm* As the author of Ecclesiastes reminds...

As a teacher at (what used to be) an all boys Benedictine high school, I’m...

For reggaeton artist Ozuna, life is an “odyssey.” In a genre that tended to uphold...

A letter to my students at our Benedictine high school Picture this--you’re sitting in the...

“With God, there’s no one who can keep the phoenix from flying.”  Puerto Rican Reggaeton...

Originally Published in Convivium Journal, available for purchase at Amazon My grandfather grasped the chant...

If there was any plus side to living through a global pandemic, it was finding...

Hulu's Ramy is loosely based on the life of Ramy Youssef, who the show stars and...

Any sane person would walk away from Martin Scorsese's new film Silence with a profound...

In honor of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, I decided to rewatch Alfonso...

Entering into one the many New York subway cars that service millions of locals, tourists,...

When teaching Christopher West's Fill These Hearts (a simplified analysis of the John Paul II's...

"In music. . . what man pays homage to is something else, something he is...

As expected, conservative Christians are up in arms over the first Hallmark Christmas movie featuring...

Among the most prominent objections to the strictly allegorical reading of the Song is the...

The intended meaning of the Song of Songs has been a matter of contention since...

I’ve been on a fiction kick. Ever since finishing my master’s thesis, I find that...

[Camp] is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed the...

Albert Thompson is a member of the American Solidarity Party National Committee. He lives in Virginia and is...

Will Arbery won over critics and audiences with his play Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Through...

This is the third article in a three part series by NYC-based photographer Felicia DiSalvo....

This is the second article in a three part series by NYC-based photographer Felicia DiSalvo....

This is the first article in a three part series by NYC-based photographer Felicia DiSalvo....

Gender theory is in part a response to the oppressiveness of socially constructed gender norms....

Considering the greater anthropological and metaphysical issues at stake here, it’s important to examine the...

I’ve been trying to keep up with the diverse array of responses to the release...

In his recent book Resisting Throwaway Culture, bioethicist and moral theologian Charles Camosy expressed his...