My generation has been educated in nearly every skill except the one Aquinas assumed we would know: how to be ordered toward God.

Andrzej Wajda has done what the greatest artists do: he has made another people's history feel like my own. This is a testament to the enduring value of his art.

One must encourage the likes of Mr. Chalamet, therefore, to change his tune: Long live ballet, long live opera, and long live cinema.

It is time for the West to wash our faces, look in the mirror, and see who we really are. Make-up, Morrissey reminds us on this gift of twelve wonderful new songs, is a lie.

A major focus of our project at the Spe Salvi Institute is the spiritual and cultural proximity of the people of the United States and the peoples of Europe. Indeed, we are sympathetic to the idea of a greater Europe, of which the United States is now the senior partner economically and militarily, but for which the Old World remains the ancient spiritual capital.

For the humanist Christian there is only one possible attitude that he can take towards the world: he must love.

Eric Rohmer's late films reveal the indelible Christian mark on the secular West.

Prog-rockers, like mystics, often attempt to go deep, or better yet, to lead us somewhere – somewhere more enriching than where we currently are; somewhere that requires patience and focus to experience fully.

Reading After Virtue was like finding a map of the intellectual terrain I had been stumbling through in the dark.