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

Self-Sacrificial Love in the Bioethics-Sphere

by Wesley J. Smith

Some these days are forced to battle doctors and bioethicists in order to properly care for their loved ones. Their courage is inspiring.  Continue Reading »

8 Dec 2017

Steinem vs. Friedan

by Peter Wood

The Fight is a tight, vivid, and compelling play depicting how the two doyennes of American feminism—Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem—faced off. Continue Reading »

22 Nov 2017

A Theology of Adoption

by Lauren Rae Konkol

In Not by Nature but by Grace, Gilbert Meilaender offers a primer for understanding adoption through a scriptural and ethical lens.  Continue Reading »

27 Oct 2017

To My Daughter, Turning Ten

by Paul Beston

Paul Beston muses on the joys of watching his daughter grow up.  Continue Reading »

13 Sep 2017

The Three Necessary Societies

by Russell Hittinger

Rerum Novarum (1891) begins with this sentence: “That the spirit of new things [revolutionary change], which has long been disturbing the nations of the world, should have passed beyond the sphere of politics and made its influence felt in the cognate sphere of practical economics is not . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

​Love Among the Artifacts

by Matthew Hennessey

This business of signing the inside covers of books is both charming and macabre. People die; books live forever. Scrawling on a flyleaf is a down payment on immortality. Think of me, it says. Memento mori. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2017

Why Man and Woman Are Not Equal

by Glenn T. Stanton

Man and woman are not equal. He owes what he is to her. That is hardly her only power, but it is among her most formidable. Continue Reading »

26 Aug 2016

The Merciful Grace of the Truth

by George Weigel

At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults, were baptized or entered into full communion with the Catholic Church. Each of them walked a unique itinerary of conversion; each of these “newborn babes” (1 Peter 2.2) is a singular work of the Holy Spirit. . . . . Continue Reading »

13 Apr 2016