The reactions to the attack on Charlie Hebdo highlight the odd affinity between the left and radical Islam and also draw attention to the unsung—and Augustinian—champions of liberal democracy: Satirists. Continue Reading »
Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie
David Warren, The Catholic Thing
Unfinished Business: 2015 in Preview
Editors, Fare Forward
What We Lose if We Lose the Canon
Arthur Krysal, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Divine Hiddenness and Human Disclosure
Br. Gregory Maria Pine, Dominicana
For reasons I cannot fathom, Michael Winters of the National Catholic Reporter seems determined to cast himself as the Wile E. Coyote of contemporary liberal Catholicism. His elaborate efforts to capture his prey—his roadrunners are those “culture warrior” bishops (such as Charles Chaput of Philadelphia) and Catholic intellectuals who are too zealous for his taste in defending the Church’s teachings on life, marriage, and sexual morality—inevitably backfire, usually comically and sometimes humiliatingly. But he intrepidly keeps at it, hoping against hope, I suppose, that his next effort will finally bring success. Continue Reading »
The season ends in a few days, the first year of a playoff, and TV ratings will be astronomical. For real lovers of the game, though, the ones with an historical sense of things, it’s getting difficult to watch. How can you appreciate the contest when so much bad behavior by players happens? Continue Reading »
Embracing the Future with Hope
Br. Innocent Smith, O.P., Dominicana
Three Poems
Bryce Taylor, Kenotic Verse
Edward Knippers—Flesh and Blood
Reine Ullman Okuliar, Art Voices Magazine
Lurking in the shadows of Marsden’s argument is a running twentieth-century debate over the culture created by what Lasch called “bourgeois society.” With its Marxist sheen dulled, much of this debate has ceased to be about class divisions (although it retains that edge in certain thinkers) and more so about mentalités—mindsets or common outlooks—that comprise the beliefs inhabiting the social imaginary. Continue Reading »
Scoop is a novel whose surreal qualities made me chuckle and whose close brushes with the reality of journalism made me, as an editor, feel like I should apologize for something. . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve lost count of the emails from readers and friends upset by Maureen Mullarkey’s sharply worded posting on Pope Francis on her blog, which we host. . . . Continue Reading »
Cartoonists Around the World Respond to Paris Attack
Editors, Haaretz
Persecution of Christians Reached Historic Levels in 2014
Jonathan Merritt, America
Holy Harvest
Ben Harris, Modern Farmer
What Is Sacred
Lee Herrick, Poetry Magazine
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