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We Catholics often toss terminology around with the assumption that we all, of course, understand it and agree on its meaning. It is only when somebody (often it seems to be our children) asks “What do you mean by that?” that we find we don’t really know what we mean.

When God commands something, it’s usually because we need to be reminded that the thing commanded is a good thing, despite the momentary testimony of our circumstances. Hence, he commands us to worship him and have no gods before him, precisely because life is constantly presenting us with alternative objects

In the wake of the mass slaughter at Virginia Tech, National Review‘s John Derbyshire labored to help grind the faces of survivors by writing: Where was the spirit of self-defense here? … It’s not like this was Rambo, hosing the place down with automatic weapons. He had two handguns for goodness’ sake—one of