On the rare occasions when I spend more than a minute scanning the headlines on the Real Clear Politics homepage and click on a story to learn more about the sad state of our nation, I get short flashes of unoriginal insight: “Why can’t we just do what’s right for America?... Read More →

  Hope, together with faith and charity, makes up the triptych of the “theological virtues” that express the heart of the Christian life (cf. 1 Cor 13:13; 1 Thess 1:3). In their inseparable unity, hope is the virtue that, so to speak, gives inward direction and purpose to... Read More →