Where I Was Wrong Part II: Iraq
by Pete SpiliakosPerhaps no error looms larger in contemporary American politics than Iraq. Continue Reading »
The End of an Era, the Interment of an Event
by George WeigelOnce, the Al Smith Dinner contributed to breaking down anti-Catholic prejudices. Now, its tribalism and its seeming indifference to grave moral issues are a scandal. Continue Reading »
Sex and Sin in Protestant America
by Joshua MitchellThe now infamous second presidential debate was a spectacle that few decent Americans want to witness again. It was also a spectacular one-act recapitulation of the four-hundred-year-long drama of sex and sin in Protestant America. Continue Reading »
A Paulist Priest’s Wonderful Life
by William Doino Jr.At ninety-five, Fr. James Lloyd is the oldest living Paulist priest. But you’d never know that from following his busy schedule. Continue Reading »
Hazarding All
by Peter J. LeithartThe play begins and ends in the romantic world of magical, musical, moonlit Belmont, and in between descends into the gritty business of Venice. From the start, though, romantic and commercial concerns are linked. Continue Reading »
Dirty Hands and Political Despair
by Brandon McGinleyIt is not an act of humility but one of mutilation to amputate one’s faith in order to fulfill some secular political mandate—whether it be a bureaucratic directive or a party’s litmus test. Continue Reading »
After the Fall
by Michael HanbyIf there is hope to be found in this painful political year, it is in the fact that the spell which liberal modernity has long cast over the Christian imagination might finally be starting to dissolve even as technocracy tightens its grip on our everyday lives. Continue Reading »
Russian Orthodoxy’s Aggressive Obsessions
by George WeigelWhat does the Lord’s injunction to turn the other cheek in Matthew 5:39 require when it comes to ecumenical dialogue? The question regularly poses itself to those familiar with the website of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church. Continue Reading »
A Culture of Life in
the Walking Dead
by Abigail Rine Favale
Six seasons into the show, characters on The Walking Dead discover that taking on the immense risk of bringing new life into the world is what counts as really “living” (as opposed to merely surviving). Continue Reading »
Packer at Ninety
by Timothy GeorgePacker recognized that the deep division that had separated Protestants and Catholics since the time of the Reformation had changed in a significant way. The most important fault line today, he argued, was between “conservationists,” who honor the Christ of the Bible and of the historic creeds and confessions, on the one hand, and the theological liberals and radicals who do not, on the other. Continue Reading »
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