The Editors

William Doino Jr. on civil rights hero Roi Ottley and the pope : He was among the most celebrated writers of his time, a world traveler, pioneer of civil rights, and an acquaintance of Ernest Hemingway, but when he died, Roi Ottley was virtually forgotten—and forgotten, too, was his remarkable . . . . Continue Reading »

Wesley J. Smith on love as the antidote to prenatal eugenic cleansing : Scientists recently announced that they are perfecting a maternal blood test that will permit technologists to map the entire genome of the developing fetus. Unlike amniocentesis, which requires the insertion of a needle into . . . . Continue Reading »

Leroy Huizenga on how fishing reconnects him to creation : Fishing is my means of reentry. If time on the computers is largely my mind absorbing pixels, then fishing is how I bring my body back into play with nature. Fishing takes our nature as bodies situated within creation seriously. I suppose . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel on the Church and the end of the welfare state : Throughout the post-Vatican II years, the U.S. bishops’ conference has typically defended the welfare state and not infrequently urged its expansion. Everyone familiar with the situation knows that this has had far more to do with . . . . Continue Reading »

Sebastian White, O.P., on divine judgement : Has Ted Kennedy been canonized? “I knew that when he left us he would go to heaven and help pass the bill,” Nancy Pelosi recently assured proclaimed, going on to assure us, “And now he can rest in peace. His dream for America’s . . . . Continue Reading »

R.R. Reno’s recommended summer reading list : New York isn’t quite as extreme as Paris, but the city gets noticeably emptier at the end of July and into August. It’s almost quiet and peaceful. OK, not almost, but certainly less crowded and frenetic. And therefore friendlier to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter J. Leithart on songs of the church militant : Christian worship is inherently political. As Bernd Wannenwetsch points out, this isn’t because worship is a tool for ginning up enthusiasm for a candidate or for stirring the fires of patriotism. On the contrary, “It is just because . . . . Continue Reading »

Russell E. Saltzman on bachelorettes and  Humanae Vitae : I am rethinking  Humanae Vitae , Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical condemning artificial birth control. Well, actually not rethinking since I cannot remember ever thinking about it much at all, ever, except dismissively. So best . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel on the war on (little) women and other insanities : The forces that defend  Roe v. Wade  know the fragility of that “exercise in raw judicial power” (as Justice Byron White, dissenting from the Roe majority, put it). That is why they defend it with such . . . . Continue Reading »

James R. Rogers on  defending religious “practices” using the language of rights : Except under a narrowly defined religious exception, the requirement under the Affordable Health Care Act that employers provide insurance that pays for contraception and other reproductive services, . . . . Continue Reading »