A Portrait of Aimlessness Review of 7 Days in Entebbe
By:The film 7 Days in Entebbe, directed by Jose Padilha, is about one of the most ingenious and daring hostage rescue missions of the last century, when I…
Intellectual Life
One-Stop Shop for Apologetics: A Review of Why We’re Catholic
By:Pity the poor Catholic apologist. Day after day, he must answer the same objections over and over again. In debates or forums, an angry atheist or …
Should We Receive Communion Only Once a Year?
By:The history of the Church's practice regarding the receipt and distribution of the Eucharist is an interesting one. The Apostles received communion da…
Field Notes from a Men’s Conference
By:I recently attended the annual Men's Conference for the Archdiocese of St. Paul & Minneapolis where I live. It was a well attended event with well…
Discerning the Devil in the Details
By:Now that we are passed the halfway point in Lent, it wouldn't hurt to take a moment and examine the progress we've hopefully made thus far by looking b…
Triumph of the Beta Male?
By:I recently saw this headline: "Triumph of the Beta Male." It's a story on the HBO series 'Silicon Valley.' I've never seen it. I'm not concerned…
Masculine Failure in the Passion of Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas
By:#MeToo We live in a culture that is both overtly sexualized and violent. When those two trends collide, collectively society is rightly appalled as we…
The War for the Beautiful
By:What do you really know about art? If you’re like me, not nearly enough. Cultured Catholic men often explore Gregorian chant and liturgical music to en…
Neo-Pagan Masculinity and Viking Metal
By:There are currently 3 pro-male movements in competition with one another: Christian Masculinity Movement. It stresses the role of matrimony, fath…
Bloody Boring: A Review of Blood Meridian
By:Following the lead of America’s favorite English professor Harold Bloom, literary critics have canonized Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian as the …