Fr. Martin Does Not Actually Say

by Dan Hitchens

In reality, Fr. James Martin does not preach directly against the Church’s teachings—but neither will he affirm them as true. Continue Reading »

2 Oct 2017

Waugh on the Merits

by Paul V. Mankowski

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper-middle-class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London. He attended a boarding secondary school (Lancing College), read history at Oxford, published his first book (a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

The Splendor of Truth in 2017

by Charles J. Chaput

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.” Those are strong words, written by the Czech activist Václav Havel in his essay “The Power of the Powerless,” one of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

Catholic America

by Stefan McDaniel

Continental Ambitions:  Roman Catholics in North America  by kevin starr ignatius, 675 pages, $34.95 In The Good Shepherd, the 2006 spy film, mobster Joseph Palmi asks CIA agent (and stereotypical WASP) Edward Wilson an insolent question: “We Italians, we got our families . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

The Transmigration of Theological Nonsense

by George Weigel

The Church is not “ours”; the Church is Christ’s. Continue Reading »

27 Sep 2017

Christianity Is For Cucks

by Matthew Schmitz

Evelyn Waugh understood that Christianity is not a matter of blood, or of race, or of victory in this world.  Continue Reading »

12 Sep 2017

It is Written in the Book

by Francesca Aran Murphy

Religions are not timeless—but neither are they unable to transcend the time from which they sprang.  Continue Reading »

7 Sep 2017

Catholicism in the Modern World

by Thomas Joseph White

An interview with Thomas Joseph White.  Continue Reading »

25 Aug 2017

A Church That Is A Home

by Matthew Schmitz

Conversion—not ecclesial nativism—is the American Catholic tradition. Continue Reading »

9 Aug 2017

On Being a Lapsed Catholic

by Anthony Burgess

In 1967, Anthony Burgess, author of “A Clockwork Orange,” described the pain of being an apostate: “It is with no indifferent eye that I view the flood of worshippers pouring into the Catholic church...I want to be one of them, but wanting is not enough.” Continue Reading »

8 Aug 2017