John Brown

Explode another liberal myth: abolitionist "hero" John Brown wasn't one of the good guys, he was a murdering psychopath. At the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre, he and his fanatical followers dragged five innocent men—none of them slave owners—from their beds and slaughtered them in front of their screaming families.

Faith

The empty conceit of people who want the comfort of faith but not the cost of actually believing and living it.

Donors

Cooperation can easily turn Catholic organizations into sub-contractors of large donors — donors with a very different anthropology and thus very different notions of authentic human development. And that can undermine the very purpose of Catholic social work.

Love for neighbor

Our love for God and our love for neighbor begin as responses to love we’ve already received.

Christianity

“Christianity doesn’t begin by telling people what they must do, but what God has done for them. Gift comes before duty.”

Individualism

American life has always had a deep streak of unhealthy individualism, rooted not just in the Enlightenment, but also in Reformation theology.

Habits

He may start as a good man with some unhappy appetites and alibis. But unless he repents and changes, the sins become the man. The habit of stealing or lying or cowardice or adultery reshapes him into a different creature.