Stumbling Over the 1960s

Stephen White of Catholic University writes a review of a new book by Timothy S. Goeglein:  Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned into a National Nightmare and How We… Read More

Pilgrims of Hope

Stephen White of Catholic University reflects on the virtue of hope and the analogy of New Years Resolutions. “As with our New Year’s resolutions, it is necessary but not sufficient… Read More

On the Feast of Stephen

Stephen White of Catholic University reflects on the feast of St. Stephen on December 26 and the carol about “Good King Wenceslaus”: “Wenceslaus may not have been a king in… Read More

I love you; You’re going to die

Today, December 10th 2024, I stumbled upon this draft that was dated August 2023. It is quite something to read what I wrote then, not knowing that five months later,… Read More

The New World and Thanksgiving

Stephen White of Catholic University wrote about Thanksgiving this season: “Gratitude, as I said, is the form of the holiday. And gratitude is best demonstrated when the cause of our… Read More

Making It Personal with Bishop Joensen

Enjoy this broad-ranging conversation between The Catholic Project’s Executive Director, Stephen White, and Bishop William Joensen of the Diocese of Des Moines: https://making-it-personal-with-bishop-william-joensen.simplecast.com/episodes/stephen-white-11-23-2024-Zy_eW_bi

On the Giving and Receiving of Honor

Stephen White of Catholic University reflects on Veteran’s Day. “To honor someone is to confer upon them some measure of our own esteem. One cannot give what one does not… Read More

Time, Hope, and All Souls

Stephen White of Catholic University reflects on the Feast of All Souls: “From the first instant of our existence, everything we experience happens within the inescapable framework of time: our… Read More

The Soloists

Last month, a Dominican priest (Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP) and I were invited to record a podcast episode hosted by two women (Diana Brown and Mallory Everton) who are… Read More

What is the Good News?

Stephen White of Catholic University writes in response to the 2024 Synod on Synodality in Rome. “When Catholics go fuzzy about sin, when we obfuscate about what leads us away… Read More

How to be a Missionary Church

Stephen White of Catholic University reflects on the oddities of patronage among the saints. “One of the delightful consolations of the Catholic faith is that we seem to have a… Read More

Wonder of Wonders

Stephen White of Catholic University reflects on the experience and practice of wonder. “Such wonder, the unaffected wonder of a child who marvels at the world and the one who… Read More