We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has a demand on us prior to any government demand on us. And this has been the story of… — 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 Image
“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 of one will to align the attitudes, feelings, preferences and choices of another with its own.” Other people become instruments to be dominated and used. They’re means to achieve our ends, not ends in themselves.6 As… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.” — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
“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 Image
