Flannery O’Connor’s Genius and Grace

by William Doino Jr.

One of the fascinating revelations of Uncommon Grace is how endearing and childlike O’Connor’s faith was—just as Jesus said the faith of his disciples should be. Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2016 0

Never Waste A Crisis

by Peter J. Leithart

A social conservative he ain’t, but that doesn’t mean the Trump bomb is meaningless for social conservatives. Pope Francis isn’t the only one to observe that a nation that produces a spectacle like this can’t be healthy. With so much shrapnel flying, with so many settled conclusions being questioned, Christians have a rare opportunity to take stock and ask some basic questions about our polity. Continue Reading »

7 Oct 2016 0

Why do Christians Revere Jerusalem?

by Mark Movsesian

Apparently, the Times’s staff is so unfamiliar with basic Christian teachings that the Resurrection slips right by them. In this, they are not alone among our mainstream media. I once heard a BBC news announcer refer to Easter as the holiday on which Christians commemorate the death of Jesus. Continue Reading »

6 Oct 2016 0

Golden Memories of a Golden Anniversary

by George Weigel

In my mind’s eye, what I see on East 33rd Street is the old brick horseshoe where I learned baseball from my grandfather Weigel in the late 1950s—and where, a half-century ago, I had a foretaste of the joy of the Kingdom. Continue Reading »

5 Oct 2016 0

The Realism We Need

by Edward Lucas

What Hitchens fails to spot is that the Soviet Union was not just about Communism, or about Russia. It was an empire. One hundred twenty million-plus of the Soviet Union’s two hundred eighty-six-million population were non-Russians. Almost none of them were Soviet by choice, any more than the one hundred million people in the other Warsaw Pact countries wanted to be under Soviet tutelage. To view the collapse of the evil empire solely from a Russian point of view is therefore misleading. Continue Reading »

4 Oct 2016 0

The Eternity of God

by Timothy George

Time does not exist apart from eternity’s embrace. Eternity embraces time on all sides, preceding, accompanying, and fulfilling it. Continue Reading »

3 Oct 2016 0

Animal Rights Would Ban Pets

by Wesley J. Smith

The ultimate goal of animal rights is not to improve our treatment of animals, but to end all animal domestication. Continue Reading »

30 Sep 2016 0

The Constitution as a Coward’s Shield and a Barbarian’s Rock

by Pete Spiliakos

Calling Donald “Only I can fix it” Trump a constitutionalist empties the term “constitutionalist” of any connection to our actual Constitution, or even to the small-c constitutionalism of respect for the rule of law. Continue Reading »

29 Sep 2016 0

Speaking of “Deplorables”....

by George Weigel

You’d think presidential candidates would have learned that shooting from the lip in front of deep-pocket donors is asking for trouble. Continue Reading »

28 Sep 2016 0

Creeping Infallibility

by Jessica M. Murdoch

Any sort of “creeping infallibility” that would attach the same level of authority to every papal utterance or document must be avoided. To fail to draw appropriate distinctions—whether between binding and non-binding documents of the ordinary magisterium, or between the development and the evolution of doctrine—is to dim the light of the Petrine ministry and impoverish the faithful. Continue Reading »

27 Sep 2016 0