“Parents often complain that America’s education establishment abuses the classroom and misuses their children by preaching new moral orthodoxies on a whole range of issues like gender identity. The courts and legal profession then enforce those new orthodoxies. But it’s… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
“The point of this work and the Christian life as a whole is not burden and drudgery, but joy. Jesus” — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“This post-Christian confusion—MacIntyre calls it “emotivism”—now shapes American public life. In such an environment, the purpose of moral discourse, he writes, “[becomes] the attempt… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.” — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“As with democratic politics, the market is a mass of individuals making discrete choices within a framework shaped by larger forces, over which they… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“We all sin, of course, but the unwillingness to take any responsibility for our sins implies a more deeply damaged spirit.” — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“in a chapter on “repairing God’s house,” they’ll find no new ideas for projects, programs, studies, procedures for nominating bishops, committees, structures, offices, synods,… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“Parents often complain that America’s education establishment abuses the classroom and misuses their children by preaching new moral orthodoxies on a whole range of… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“One of Christianity’s key contributions to Western civilization was to give men and women a sense of freedom from the whims of fate, a… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“One of the ways in which a good Christian marriage mirrors the divine is that, just as God’s love overflowed into creation, so the… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“It also attracts thousands of others to the faith. Bland secular platitudes, consumer junk, and cheap nihilism feed nobody’s soul. These things strangle the… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.” — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“The late distinguished sociologist Robert Nisbet, following Tocqueville, argued that when the forces of personal liberation are dominant in a culture, the result is… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk false criticisms… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
“Latino evangelicals are much more socially conservative than Latino Catholics … So when these people convert from Catholicism to evangelicalism, they actually come closer to… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share
