Dan Hitchens

Near the start of this book, there is an unexpectedly absorbing digression on the subject of the late Paul Mankowski, S.J.’s shirts. In a letter about clerical clothing, Mankowski explains that he owns “a total of about six shirts, four of which are wearable in public and the others of which are . . . . Continue Reading »

The Christian nationalism panic ignores the terrain where Christianity actually is advancing. Continue Reading »

When the nineteen-year-old Joan of Arc was told she would be burned at the stake, she reacted with horror—not for the reasons you or I might give, but on more mysterious grounds. According to the Dominican friar Jean Toutmouillé, who visited her at the prison in Rouen on the morning of May . . . . Continue Reading »

Pope Francis is still the Vicar of Christ—even if he appears to have collapsed in on himself. Continue Reading »

Are you religious?” alcoholic rich kid Jay asks high-achieving Ellie. “Spiritual,” she ­replies. JAY: So you go to yoga twice a week—? ELLIE: Essentially. JAY: Yeah see that’s garbage. ELLIE: It’s better than nothing. JAY: No, it is nothing. ELLIE: Probably. Matthew Gasda, in whose . . . . Continue Reading »

Archbishop Fernández's appointment to Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is a terrifyingly bad joke—in some ways the culmination of the decade-long tragicomedy of this pontificate. Continue Reading »

NatCon U.K. brought together many different types of speakers, some with irreconcilable differences, all representing that growing political faction, the Non-Left. Continue Reading »

Its legacy can be simply summarized: ten years which have destroyed a great deal and created almost nothing. Continue Reading »

Both men lived through, in the last decade of their lives, the chaos of our times, but in very different ways. Continue Reading »

A couple of years ago I stumbled upon a cult. Browsing in a secondhand bookshop, I picked up R. H. Tawney’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism and, remembering a vague resolution to read it one day, took it to the counter. The fresh-faced student at the cash register was delighted. . . . . Continue Reading »