Love

Canceling Love in the Name of Love

The effort to preserve life by prohibiting the living of it doesn’t work. Continue Reading »

26 Feb 2021

Requiem for Ethel

Your eyes sparkled. And there was playfulnessIn your smile that veiled your age,Softening the hard years with its warm caress. And oh, that accent—that Louisiana drawl—It dripped like summer-morning dewIn fields long in grass before harvest fall. You reached out when you spoke, with . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2020

Hope As a Natural Virtue

by Peter J. Leithart

We embark on the road of sanity only when we walk in hope; hope is the source of natural virtue. Continue Reading »

22 Nov 2019

Letters

by Various

Immigration Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism, which was lately set forth in Matthew Schmitz’s “Immigration Idealism” (May), famously relegates Jesus’s social teaching to the realm of the ideal rather than the possible. Schmitz’s endorsement of this realism makes a mistake that . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2019

Love Your Enemies

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Arthur Brooks on his latest book, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from Our Culture of Contempt. Continue Reading »

17 May 2019

Made for Love

by R. R. Reno

In the early 1880s, Henry James set out to write “a very American tale.” The result was The Bostonians, serialized in a magazine in 1885 and then published in a single volume in 1886. The novel features activist meetings, conversations sprinkled with references to the cause of women’s . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Redeeming the Time
with St. Patrick

by Terence Sweeney

Why love this world? Because it was in this world that we fell in love with God and it is only in this time that we can help other hearts turn to God. Continue Reading »

14 Mar 2019

“Synodality” and the Rome Abuse Summit

by George Weigel

There is no single reform template that will address different forms of clerical sexual misconduct in quite diverse circumstances Continue Reading »

20 Feb 2019