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Alfie Evans and Our Moral Crossroads

As with Charlie Gard before him, Alfie Evans’s death is being pursued by the very people whose vocation it is to help and protect him. Continue Reading »

25 Apr 2018

Job’s Children

by Shalom Carmy

In S. Y. Agnon’s 1939 novel A Guest for the Night, one of the protagonists, Daniel Bach, recounts his loss of faith. Throughout World War I, as a soldier in the trenches, he had been meticulous about donning his tefillin to recite his daily prayers. Until one morning, the tefillin . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2018

Poland’s Baby Bump

by Lyman Stone

Since implementing a financial plan intended to boost the country's fertility rate, Poland has seen a small rise in births. Continue Reading »

2 Mar 2018

The Eschatological Hope of Bearing Children

by Ian Caveny

To bear a baby is to participate in the mysteries of God. Continue Reading »

5 Feb 2018

What Manner of Adult?

by Shalom Carmy

One of the few things liberal and conservative educators agree on these days is that college students are too fragile. Many of them are intellectually and emotionally unable to engage ideas uncongenial to them. Many are incapable of accepting honest assessments of their academic performance. They . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

The Godless Nursery School

by Charlotte Allen

Hell hath no fury like secular parents who learn that the local church-run nursery school plans to start teaching about Jesus. Continue Reading »

10 Nov 2017

Our Outdated Debates

by Jessica Keating

Thanks to modern technology and transhumanism, our familiar forms of argument about abortion are becoming obsolete. Continue Reading »

22 Jun 2017

Catholic Lite and Europe’s Demographic Suicide

by George Weigel

When an entire continent—healthier, wealthier, and more secure than ever before—deliberately chooses sterility, the most basic cause for that must lie in the realm of the human spirit, in a certain souring about the very mystery of being. Continue Reading »

24 May 2017

Don’t Ask the Kids

by Leonard Sax

Distrust of authority is now the American norm. In 1964, 77 percent of Americans said that they trusted the government to do the right thing most of the time or all of the time. In 2012, only 22 percent of Americans agreed that the government could be trusted. When I was growing up in the 1960s, if . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2016

Embodied Caregiving

by Erika Bachiochi

Dependency is just as much a part of the human experience as the ability to reason. And yet, modern thought has largely neglected dependency, instead touting individual autonomy and rational self-interest. If we are to recover the human person’s proper relationship with others, we must turn to . . . . Continue Reading »