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What Is Sacred Music?

By Dr. Kurt Poterack

Download PDF Is sacred music just music with religious lyrics? Is it music that pleases people and, in some way, moves them toward God? Is it totally subjective? Is it totally objective? Most people might say that sacred music is simply music used in the context of a...

Essential Potential: Settling the ‘Woman’ Question

By Dr. Abigail Favale

Download PDF The classic dystopian novel Brave New World features a totalitarian society that has completely separated human reproduction from sexual activity. Human beings are mass produced and engineered into a caste system; from infancy, their desires are shaped...

Responding to ‘Cancel Culture’ with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

By Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone

Download PDF You likely remember, as I do, that tense moment in April 2019 when the whole world (Catholics and non-Catholics alike) looked on in shock as flames threatened to destroy Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It was an uncanny moment of unity in suffering...

Why In-Person Education Is Essential

By Mary Stanford

Download PDF Just a few decades ago, any educational environment outside the context of a community of persons might be labeled a “correspondence course,” or an “online educational program.” If one’s educational experience were anything other than on-location, a...

St. Thomas Aquinas on the Five Remedies for Sorrow

By Matt Fradd

Download PDF No matter how good we have it, no matter how wealthy we are, or how many good friends we have, or even how holy we are, all of us will experience sorrow in this life. A couple of years into my marriage when my wife, newborn child, and I were living in...

The Godless Roots of Socialism

By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

Download PDF What is it about socialism? It seems that the arguments against it, no matter how finely tuned, have to be made over and over again in every generation. It pops up in one nation faster than it can be put down in another. The sons of men who fought...