When America heard that President Donald Trump would posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Col. John W. Ripley today on June 18, 2026, many Americans wanted to learn more about this extraordinary hero. Fortunately, award-winning author Norman Fulkerson has already produced the first and only cradle-to-grave biography of Col. John W. … Read more
Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day comes at a strange time in America’s history. As the nation nears the 250th anniversary of its birth, it faces polarization, not unity, recriminations, not celebration. The worst thing is that there seems to be no human way out of this mess. People are grasping for desperate solutions. … Read more
The Shroud of Turin has always been shrouded in mystery. Now, intriguing new evidence reveals additional details that support the origins of Our Lord’s two-millennium-old burial cloth. A DNA study of the Shroud of Turin, conducted by researchers at the University of Padova, Italy, found a vast array of genetic material from … Read more
Many families know how to build wealth, but far fewer know how to pass it on in a way that strengthens the next generation. The big challenge facing many wealthy Baby Boomers today is not how to transfer assets but how to give those assets a meaningful purpose. Wealth should serve a … Read more
One is struck by the great diversity of topics in Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas. Mention of human dignity, dehumanization, just war theory, social justice and transhumanism are significant yet abstract subjects. They are very theoretical and do not address how AI affects the lives of Catholics in the real … Read more
The following article is the second of a four-part series that features the life of Augustus Pugin, the renown English Catholic architect of the nineteenth century. The first article is found here. Long before Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin accepted the tenets of Catholicism, he absorbed its culture. Like many young men, Pugin … Read more
When considering sublime things, Saint Louis IX’s Sainte-Chapelle naturally comes to mind. Indeed, the definition of the sublime is “that which overawes us by its grandeur and beauty.” When most people go to see this gem of civilization in Paris, they oftentimes see a reflection of this chapel before they even step … Read more
In 1917 at Fatima, Our Lady called Russia a scourge but also foretold its immense potential for a spiritual turnaround. Fast-forward to today, and Vladimir Putin’s attempt to demoralize Ukraine has ironically become the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s greatest cause for conversion in a century. Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv notes … Read more
The synodal process inaugurated by Pope Francis is working toward the complete transformation of the Catholic Church that the Argentine Pope desired: “In this Church, as in an inverted pyramid, the top is located beneath the base.” In other words, Pope Francis’s “Synodal Church” will be an egalitarian church. But more than … Read more
The dinner table was once a sacred space. The dining room was a domestic sanctuary where families and friends gathered to share meals, exchange ideas, and occasionally argue over politics and religion. Children learned first principles, manners and valuable life lessons from their parents that are rarely taught elsewhere. Today, however, this … Read more