A Cheap Shot on Chaput, Esolen, Dreher

by Mark Bauerlein

James K. A. Smith's attack on the so-called “new alarmism” is unfair and uncivil. Continue Reading »

14 Mar 2017 0

Silence for Silence

by John Murdock

In the end, Silence was too Christian for Hollywood and too Hollywood for Christians. Continue Reading »

24 Feb 2017 0

Saint Peter’s Chair

by C. C. Pecknold

The feast is an exaltation of the Church militant, malignant, and triumphant.
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22 Feb 2017 0

In Memoriam Michael Novak

by R. R. Reno

Our public life is the better for his many decades of analysis, commentary, and spirited partisanship on behalf of higher religious, moral, and political truths. Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2017 0

Still Waking Up

by Samuel D. James

If in truth we find human dignity, then the reverse is also true: Where truth is cast aside, so also is human dignity. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2017 0

​Love Among the Artifacts

by Matthew Hennessey

This business of signing the inside covers of books is both charming and macabre. People die; books live forever. Scrawling on a flyleaf is a down payment on immortality. Think of me, it says. Memento mori. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2017 0

The Peace Treaty

by R. R. Reno

When we pledge our faithfulness to another on our wedding day, we’re mocking the changeableness of life, saying that we trust in the covenant of marriage to transcend the weakness of our flesh, the fickleness of our passions, and the fragility of our egos. Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2017 0

Saint Valentine, Martyr

by C. C. Pecknold

Whatever one thinks about the day that bears his name—so unjustly desacralized, in my opinion—it seems fitting that this day still retains a memory of a love which is hidden. Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2017 0

Ask Not: On Gifts and Debts

by Dale M. Coulter

Kennedy at his inauguration and medieval theologians agree: humans owe their existence to something beyond themselves, and they should live in light of that debt. Continue Reading »

7 Feb 2017 0

Soap and Oprah

by Carl R. Trueman

A new document indicates just how weak Roman Catholic moral theology could become. Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2017 0