America can often be an ugly place, but the field sobriety test is a flower of its field.
The nesting urge is not born in the months before birth. It does not arrive from out of the blue.
The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church is the only real, living, alternative to a world of unreality.
In the heavenly city, darkness and night are dispelled by the constant radiance of God. Our earthly cities have made a parody of this.
The meaning of identity is the question that now roils societies.
One is either of a people who forget or a people who remember.
I have been patronizing my dishwasher. I have been subsidizing its efforts.
D. C. Schindler argues that the loss of authority is the greatest of all human crises. When Nietzsche speaks of the death of God, which will lead to calamities, Schindler sees the great loss of authority. Liberalism's dismantling of any authority in favor of the sovereign individual has lead to the collapse of social order and the pursuit of a genuinely common good. In this podcast with Andrew Willard Jones, D. C. Schindler discusses authority and how it can be recovered.
We live in a disillusioned political age, one where old liberal arguments no longer have hold. Conservatism has moved into a right-wing politics which no longer sees the value of Christianity. Lost in an ostensibly equal mass, individuals have experienced a loss of identity. New developments in technology, and especially AI, present an existential threat to human agency. In our time (2025) and place (America), we need the social doctrine of the Church.
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America can often be an ugly place, but the field sobriety test is a flower of its field.