C. S. Lewis and Contraception
by Michael WardC. S. Lewis's writings betray no formal stance on contraception, though a close reading reveals his critical gaze on the topic, prohibited from speech by a sense of prudence. Continue Reading »
Downstream from Dobbs
by Gerard V. BradleyThough Roe has been overturned, it doesn't look like the landmark cases that made contraception, sodomy, and same-sex marriage constitutional rights are going anywhere. Continue Reading »
Going Beyond the Letter of the Law
by Gerhard Ludwig Müller and Stephan KampowskiIn previous times, people who did not agree with the teaching of Humanae Vitae or Donum Vitae simply said that they begged to differ. The new approach, adopted by the PAV, is to state the opposite of the teaching, while at the same time claiming that one agrees. Continue Reading »
Morbid Safetyism
by Catherine Ruth PakalukA morbid obsession with safety jettisons life in order to preserve life. Continue Reading »
A Supreme Court Sequel for the Little Sisters
by Kevin C. WalshThe Little Sisters of the Poor are in a Supreme Court sequel because of “progressive” politicians’ unrelenting opposition to any religious exercise that might complicate their vision of the good life. Continue Reading »
The Gift of Children
by Evangelicals and Catholics TogetherChildren are gifts. In them, we respond to Moses’s urgent imperative: Choose life! (Deut. 30:19) Men and women have always brought children into the world. To be a parent is the most natural of things. It is fundamental to what it means to be human. Yet the birth of a child is also an . . . . Continue Reading »
Baptizing the Spirit of the Age
by Matthew Lee AndersonThe new “Affirmation of Baptismal Faith” erodes the Church of England’s claim to bear witness to the one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. Continue Reading »
Reflections on the Revolution
by Deborah SavageI was born in San Francisco and went to a college barely an hour’s drive from the famous Haight-Ashbury district. It gave me a front-row seat at the beginning of what we now refer to as the sexual revolution. I watched as the young women around me gave in to the onslaught. It was only later . . . . Continue Reading »
Standard Procedures
by Leah Libresco SargeantThe discipline of medicine is an art of dynamic tension. Continue Reading »
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