David Mills

From Father Raniero Cantalamessa’s Good Friday homily at St. Peter’s: Despite all the misery, injustice, the monstrosities present on Earth, he has already inaugurated the final order in the world. What we see with our own eyes may suggest otherwise, but in reality evil and death . . . . Continue Reading »

Commended to your attention is this summer’s conference at Portsmouth Abbey,  Catholicism and the American Experience . Leading the speakers is our own George Weigel, who’ll be talking on “Catholics in an Unfamiliar America.” Other speakers include the Bishop of . . . . Continue Reading »

For those of you who don’t know his writing, here are two of today’s items from the always entertaining and thought-provoking Anthony Sacramone, once of First Things and now of ISI Books. (To be absolutely honest, let’s say “almost always” or maybe just . . . . Continue Reading »

• This will be, we should warn you, a Catholic-heavy “While We’re At It.” But then popes don’t resign every day. • First, a word from New York. A friend who works in a New York City agency tells us that its employees have been told not to call anyone “homeless.” The proper term is . . . . Continue Reading »

The Christian, it should be safe to say, but apparently isn’t, should not stomp on a paper with Jesus’ name on it. He should have a physical reaction at the thought of doing so. Matthew Franck dealt well and at length yesterday with the latest national Christian controversy in his The . . . . Continue Reading »

Jesus : “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh” (Matthew 25:13). Pew : “Roughly half (48%) of Christians in the U.S. say they believe that Christ will definitely (27%) or probably (20%) return to earth in the next 40 years.” . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a point several of us here and many others have made over and over, but it’s nice to see it being made again: Our mainstream intellectual culture declares religious opposition to abortion theocratic, a violation of the separation of church and state, etc., and often says so very . . . . Continue Reading »

“Maybe God is telling us that the kind of tepid Christianity we find in the northern hemisphere is no longer vigorous enough to face the challenges the Church is faced with,” and so God gave . . . . Continue Reading »

“What Nostra Aetate failed to do was to tell the truth about the essence of God’s Grace and Mercy, the truth about our Salvation,” writes a reader of the weblog. ( Nostra Aetate is the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the respondents to my Writers Need Rejection objected to (I’m assuming) the title and the writer I quoted who called rejection a “benefit.” He wrote: Rejection per se is not especially useful, but the experience Tom Gilson describes is—a rejection that . . . . Continue Reading »