“The White House elected to power in November 2008 campaigned on compelling promises of hope, change, and bringing the nation together. The reality it delivered for eight years was rather different: a brand of leadership that was narcissistic, aggressively secular,… — 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
