The Editors

George Weigel on  Vatican II’s golden anniversary : The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, the most important Catholic event since the 16th-century Council of Trent, was solemnly opened by Pope John XXIII 50 years ago, on October 11, 1962. Commentators ever since have taken that . . . . Continue Reading »

James R. Rogers on Yoram Hazony and the Jeffersonians : The stories from the Bible so often come to us as isolated examples of pious or ethical behavior, that it’s frankly a relief to read Yoram Hazony’s book,  The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture . Hazony reads these stories . . . . Continue Reading »

Wesley J. Smith on whether Muslim doctors should be able to refuse to treat the opposite sex : With the Muslim population increasing in Western Europe and the United States, that faith’s strict religious requirement to maintain modesty between the sexes has prompted some Muslim medical . . . . Continue Reading »

Leroy Huizenga on St. Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church : This Sunday, October 7, Pope Benedict will name Hildegard of Bingen a Doctor of the Church, having in early May extended her cult to the universal Church to remove all doubt about her status as a saint. Doctors of the Church are . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel on America and the world : The foreign policy debate in the United States has often been peculiar, in that it’s not infrequently about the United States rather than the world. Throughout history, other great powers have thought about world politics in terms of national interest. . . . . Continue Reading »

Betsy VanDenBerghe on Evangelicals and Mormons making peace : We refer to it in our family as “the clown episode.” Over a dozen years ago our family visited a collection of rare Bibles open to the public as part of a Sunday service sponsored by Salt Lake City’s Evangelical churches, . . . . Continue Reading »

R.R. Reno on keeping your faith in college : The most important piece of advice I can give: don’t put your spiritual life on hold! During your first semester of college there are many new people to meet, as well as new experiences to have, and fascinating ideas to entertain. That’s as it . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter J. Leithart on restoring theology as the queen of the sciences : While I’m at it, I’d like to get rid of another copulative. The founders of the modern world kept theology at bay by subdividing theology’s little ghetto. Divide and marginalize has been modernity’s strategy . . . . Continue Reading »

Russell E. Saltzman on memory and the Lord’s Supper : The Lord’s Last Supper becomes “a real memory” for us, a real event we live through and are expected to remember as vividly as yesterday. It isn’t something Jesus did with his disciples in Jerusalem once upon a time. It . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel on the future of marriage : In public policy terms, the Catholic critique of gay marriage reflects the Catholic idea of the just state. Rightly understood, marriage is one of those social institutions that exist “prior” to the state: prior in terms of time (marriage existed . . . . Continue Reading »