Many have described Donald Trump as a bully. His verbal assaults on Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel certainly fit that description. Curiel is overseeing a law suit against the now-defunct Trump University. Things aren't going Trump's way, it seems. And so, instead of calling the judge “stupid” or . . . . Continue Reading »
It's not disengagement from politics; it's a continuation of the culture war's bad politics. Continue Reading »
Where has all the dark Christian music gone? It doesn’t take much listening to notice how blithe and breezy popular Christian music has become. At the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight, Leah Libresco has run the numbers and found that the lyrics of recent Christian hits skew towards life, . . . . Continue Reading »
Does your soul need a lay-me-down instead of a pick-me-up? Harrison Lemke's Fertile Crescent Blues is a deep Biblical meditation expressed through feel-bad indie music. Continue Reading »
What is the role of the priest in today's Catholic schools? How do the Fathers of the Church speak to us today? This and more in our events roundup.
“Just as if the world had existed merely for our sakes!” Continue Reading »
Bill C-14 (now before the Senate) is about to thrust Canada into the brave new world of assisted suicide. The “right to die” has been sold to the public as a triumph for personal autonomy. This rhetoric of individual liberty, however, is belied by the bill’s disregard for the conscience rights of Canadians. Continue Reading »
On a Greenwich Village street corner, amid a throng of man buns and designer sun hats, the priest held up the monstrance. Continue Reading »
Colin Gunton piped up, “Oxford? There are no theologians at Oxford.” I blurted out, “We have John Webster”—to which Gunton replied, “Right, well, Webster is an exception.” Continue Reading »
Dispatches from a recent lecture by Rod Dreher.
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