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 »
Affirming and Celebrating Humanae Vitae
by George WeigelJuly 25 is the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical on the integrity of love and the appropriate means of family planning. Continue Reading »
Pope Paul Said No
by Dan HitchensAs the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae approaches, we should resist the temptation to see the encyclical as the standalone work of a trailblazing pope. Continue Reading »
The Prophetic Power of Humanae Vitae
by Mary EberstadtOne recurring theme in Pope Francis’s teaching is that human realities trump scholarly abstractions: “La realidad es superior a la idea.” His signature phrase about pastors who have the “smell of the sheep” is the folk version of this maxim. Cautions about “rigidity,” “empty . . . . Continue Reading »
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