Friends, in light of the estimate that shutting down USAID has resulted in 600,000 deaths and counting, I’d like to discuss St. Thomas Aquinas’s distinction between moral obligation and supererogation

I can think of another leader who had difficulty speaking—and he led God’s people out of Egypt.

I did not criticize the administration. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I criticized the administration.

I don’t blame “women in the workplace” for the sexual misconduct that was alleged at Word on Fire. I blame the sexual revolution as a whole

Jesus takes the side of the poor, of Lazarus, over against Dives. But politically, discerning the side of “Dives” is difficult and requires prudence

I did not criticize the administration. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I criticized the administration.

Friends, at the height of the recent conflict in Gaza, I published an article taking a firm stand against genocide. Specifically, I decried college students who I’m pretty sure were calling for the genocide of Israelis

In a recent conversation with the President, I noted that the problem with liberalism is that the natural cannot contain or adequately bear the supernatural. When it pretends to do so, we end up with, at best, a simulacrum of the supernatural. He nodded with a knowing gravitas

One message, three sheets of paper: this is Trinitarian aesthetics

The first shall be last, our Lord says. The winners shall be losers. In this sense, the Democrats lost in a landslide last night

One message, three sheets of paper: this is Trinitarian aesthetics

Throughout our nation there is a vast, aggressive bureaucratic apparatus comprising fellow Americans who get up every day and tear families apart. They are called teachers, and they are using pronouns without parental consent

Amigos, I assure you: the Church stands with every human made in the image of God and carrying papers

People keep asking me to denounce Nick Fuentes, but look, if I denounced every white nationalist Catholic who did a chummy interview on a podcast where I also did a chummy interview a few months earlier, there would be no end to it

As the great John Henry Newman argued, a university is not a factory for churning out knowledge, but a haven for cultivating wisdom, breadth of vision, and unquestioning submission to the foreign policy aims of the nation where it’s located

Lead with beauty!

Zohran Mamdani’s socialism violates Catholic Social Teaching, full stop. On the other side, should billionaires be allowed to buy elections? Well, friends, this is a matter of prudence

Friends, it is so urgent to talk about our fellow Christians being persecuted around the world. Of course, they can’t come here (there’s only room for some white Afrikaners), but it’s a great talking point.

I feel that maintaining open lines of communication and engaging in dialogue with Beelzebub constitute the most constructive way forward.

Zohran Mamdani’s socialism violates Catholic Social Teaching, full stop. On the other side, should billionaires be allowed to buy elections? Well, friends, this is a matter of prudence

Friends, it is with great concern that I address the rise of dictatorship in our time. As the great Pope Benedict XVI so aptly put it, it is the dictatorship of relativism

Amigos, I assure you: the Church stands with every human made in the image of God and carrying papers

I’ve been enjoying the new Star Wars series, Andor. As I watch the rebels heroically take on the cold machine of the Empire, I can’t help but think of modern-day iconoclasts like my friend Jordan Peterson

Should the most prominent Catholic cleric in the country be out on the front lines of peaceful protest demanding humane treatment for immigrants and refugees? Friends, as the great Bob Dylan once said, the answer is blowing in the wind

Should the most prominent Catholic cleric in the country be out on the front lines of peaceful protest demanding humane treatment for immigrants and refugees? Friends, as the great Bob Dylan once said, the answer is blowing in the wind

As I preached a few weeks ago, of all the forms of human dysfunction we find in Scripture the one that cries out most to God is indifference to the poor. This is why I befriend those in power and in media whose attitude toward the poor amounts to a positive hostility

In a nation where the President and Vice President, 87% of Congress, and 8/9 of the Supreme Court identify as Christians, one must search with acute vigilance to pinpoint the subtle but very real intrusions of anti-Christian bias

Friends, I grew up a few miles from where the Broadview facility is now allegedly depriving people of food, water, and medical treatment. Since this falls outside my jurisdiction in Winona-Rochester, I will withhold comment. I want to talk today about the spiritual decline of Europe

Throughout our nation there is a vast, aggressive bureaucratic apparatus comprising fellow Americans who get up every day and tear families apart. They are called teachers, and they are using pronouns without parental consent

The imagery of U.S. military power as Pete Hegseth prays that most sacred of Christian prayers may not attain to the heights of a commentary by, say, St. Gregory of Nyssa, but what a visceral reminder of the warfare we must wage against the spiritual powers of darkness

Friends, I grew up a few miles from where the Broadview facility is now allegedly depriving people of food, water, and medical treatment. Since this falls outside my jurisdiction in Winona-Rochester, I will withhold comment. I want to talk today about the spiritual decline of Europe

It was a great honor to be interviewed by Tucker Carlson. His recent interview with a feisty up-and-coming Catholic who called J.D. Vance a “fat, gay, race traitor that married a jeet” illustrates the dynamic intellectual diversity of the right

As we at Word on Fire informed Commonweal Magazine, we consider it slander to be in any way associated with Donald Trump.

From Gaza to the United States, children are being subjected to hunger and state violence. What an opportunity to be initiated into an askesis which, as the great St. John of the Cross reminds us, frees us from the enslavement of the ego!

I find it deeply gratifying, having spent my life steeped in Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, and Shakespeare, to be numbered among the great religious minds of our time, such as Paula White, Eric Metaxas, and Phil McGraw

Friends, certain of my critics say I provide a “shallow intellectual veneer” to a “vulgar fascism.” But would a shallow veneer use phrases like “incurvatus in se”?

Friends, the gilded ballroom offers us a foretaste of heaven, where the dance of Trinitarian love will gleam in streets of gold and there will be no poor people

Friends, Vice President Vance has made some remarks about Haitians and other immigrants that I may not agree with, but he has also done something far more significant, which is to bring theological Latin phrases into mainstream discourse

Friends, as a member of the Religious Liberty Commission I am watching the Body of Christ be denied to Catholic detainees, and inspired by the great twentieth-century Trappist Thomas Merton I am meeting this moment with the most powerful tool in the contemplative’s arsenal: silence.

Throughout the centuries, the great Christian martyrs have filled up the treasury of merit by their courageous witness. I’m thrilled to announce that you can now take up their mantle by purchasing the Word on Fire bitcoin, Crypt Currency™

Friends, Christianity has always been a religion of speaking truth to power. Go back to the Old Testament prophets, St. Joan of Arc, St. Thomas More. But what does this mean in our current context? I would argue that it means going to campuses and yelling at college kids

I have often said: lead with Beauty. Lead with Bach, lead with Dante’s great Commedia, lead with Chartres

In his great 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII excoriated the concentration of wealth in the hands of an increasingly powerful few. Think Carnegie, Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan. And I tell you, friends, looking around at our current landscape, I thank God this problem has been solved

Friends, Vice President Vance has made some remarks about Haitians and other immigrants that I may not agree with, but he has also done something far more significant, which is to bring theological Latin phrases into mainstream discourse

Raze the bastions! (But not the border wall)

My intellectual hero, the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, noted the staleness of “ego-drama” compared with the riches of “Theo-drama.” This is why I support President Trump’s valiant efforts to sell autographed Bibles

As St. Thomas Aquinas reminds us, Being is convertible with the Good, indeed with all the great transcendentals. You could call the President’s social media app Beauty Social, Good Social, Being Social

As the great Apostle Paul taught us, the Church is a body with many members, some called to feed the poor, some to martyrdom, some to talk on podcasts with Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro

Friends, as a member of the Religious Liberty Commission I am watching the Body of Christ be denied to Catholic detainees, and inspired by the great twentieth-century Trappist Thomas Merton I am meeting this moment with the most powerful tool in the contemplative’s arsenal: silence.

St. Fabian and Sebastian, pray for us. St. Cosmas and Damian, pray for us. St. Charlie Kirk, pray for us. All you Holy Martyrs, pray for us.