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Leo XIII and our Populist Age
Stephen White of Catholic University reflects on the problems that led to the election of Trump as President, comparing them to how Pope Leo XIII was compelled write Rerum Novarum:… Read More
The Secret Lives of Nations
Stephen White of Catholic University reflects on the upcoming 250th anniversary of the establishment of the United States. “America is no longer young, but neither is she particularly old, at… Read More
The Vice President, Immigration, and a Way Forward
Stephen White of Catholic University writes on the American immigration system, its problems, and the new administration. “If our immigration laws have been poorly conceived, poorly written, and poorly enforced,… Read More
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
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
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
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