Imitating the deep sanctity of the Curé d’Ars is what we each individually need to focus on, as Catholics and especially as Catholic professionals who daily serve, engage, lead, influence and partner with others at all levels of business and secular interactions! Crisis—“If there were only three like you in France, I would not be…
As a psychosis, “self-mutilation syndrome” is rooted in self-loathing and obsessive-compulsive behavior. Whole cultures can be afflicted with a similar compulsion to injure themselves. Nowadays it is called a “cancel culture.” To topple statues and burn churches is a metaphor for self-loathing rather than reason. In their modern aesthetic recklessness, nations begin to disdain what Matthew…
Most of our Founding Fathers were not deeply informed about Catholicism, but they appreciated moral integrity when they saw it. When John Dubois, eventually the first resident Bishop of New York, fled the French Revolution, he lived for a while in the home of James Monroe. Patrick Henry taught him English, and Thomas Jefferson arranged for…
