Columnist: Anthony Esolen

How do you preach the word of God to madmen? How do you preach it in Bedlam? For everyone in Bedlam is going to be afflicted with the twitch. If ...

My family and I spend a few months out of the year in Nova Scotia, in a part of the province that was once overwhelmingly Catholic. The congregations are aging, ...

The last two weeks have been a sobering time for me and my family, as the assassination of Charlie Kirk has brought to my mind a few of my encounters ...

Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte has made news with his order, if I may be permitted a metaphor, that the Vetus Ordo be celebrated only in a certain broom closet ...

A long time ago, we hired a team of carpenters and plumbers to renovate a bathroom. Moe, Larry, and Curly were not masters of their craft. I should have fired ...

Several years ago, at the March for Life in Washington, some boys from a Catholic school in Kentucky were being harassed by a native American protester and by a group ...

One of our neighbors in Canada, where we live for part of the year, is thinking of buying the cottage next door, the homestead of an old man who isn’t ...

The newly appointed archbishop of Washington, D.C., Robert McElroy, says that the Church has learned more about human sexuality since the days of St. Paul and that, armed with this ...

I have consistently found that the most intolerant people I meet are those who have the word “tolerance” on their lips all the time. We should not take this as ...

So, for eighty years, the priest and the altar boy at the church of my childhood prepared for Mass in prayer apart from the congregation.  Anyone who had once served ...

“Let your yes be yes and your no be no,” says Jesus, commanding his disciples never to swear.  “Everything else comes from the evil one.” Jesus is no casuist.  We ...

This Pentecost, a hermit in the diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, admitted that she was really a she and not a he. That is not how she put it, but that ...

One way to diagnose someone with a bad conscience is to look for a certain form of restlessness.  If the conscience is God’s umpire within us, impartial, no respecter of ...

When I think of the generation of Catholic churchmen, religious sisters, theologians, and songsters who were coming into their revolution when I was a boy, and who have never admitted ...

Having consigned reason to that impoverished realm of human experience that can be subjected to controlled experiments and the quantification of their results, we are left with no basis upon ...

One day, when I was a senior in high school, I went into the lavatory and was followed by a junior whose name I knew, though I didn’t know anything ...

We see that, at the Synod, the topic of women’s ordination has come up, as if the rest of the Christian world that has gone along with this innovation—and in ...

So the Catholic, trying hard to be faithful in a faithless time, is now to be dismissed – according to a Certain Person in Rome – for being obsessed with ...

Shepherds should smell like the sheep, says Pope Francis. I do not know what Andres Serrano smells like. I can make a good guess as to his art. He is ...

We are supposed to read “the signs of the times,” says Jesus, and the fathers at the Second Vatican Council urged us to do the same.  I used to say ...

Speak only good things of the dead, the saying goes. The yoga division of The New York Times assumed a veritable Möbius strip of a position to attempt to write ...