The Faithful Remnant

by Mark Bauerlein

Fr. Robert McTeigue .S.J joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Christendom Lost and Found: Meditations for a Post Post-Christian Era. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2023

The West Should Not Abandon Armenia

by Mark Movsesian

Unless the West creates greater incentives for Azerbaijan to negotiate in good faith, a humanitarian crisis looks about to unfold. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2023

1619 Rightly Understood

by Wilfred M. McClay

One of the most important things to be said about the New York Times’ loud but intellectually threadbare effort to recast the year 1619 as the date of the American nation’s “true founding” is that it was a missed opportunity. The year 2019, which was the four hundredth anniversary of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2023

Letters

by Various

My deep thanks to Brad East for his piece on doing theology in a divided church (“Theology in Division,” April 2023). The topic is centrally important and rarely taken seriously, as if its obviousness renders the challenge uninteresting. East’s larger points about aiming at a catholic theology . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2023

Don’t Spare the Rod

by Daniel Buck

I teach in the most crime-ridden neighborhood in my city. I am not the best teacher in the building—they won’t make any Hollywood movies about me—but I am a good one. One administrator described my classes as a Jekyll-and-Hyde affair. There may be utter chaos elsewhere, but when my . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2023

Our Lady of Azakh

by Samuel Sweeney

There’s a curious little church in the Syrian city of Derik. The Church of Our Lady (kanisat al-adhra in Arabic) is modern, built in 1958 atop the remains of a much older, undated church. The original church was long buried when a local parishioner, so the story goes, dreamt one night in 1940 . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2023

The Continuing Relevance of the Donatist Controversy

by Gilbert Meilaender

Perhaps only a few potential readers are interested enough in an essay titled “The Continuing Relevance of the Donatist Controversy” to begin reading it immediately (or ever). Others may be pleased to learn that only gradually will we make our way to thinking about the controversy that troubled . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2023

Angel of New York

by John Byron Kuhner

On days when the world to me is desolation; when I cannot sit in my seat, or do any productive labor; when I have a terrible desire to be free, and my responsibilities seem not worth the effort, I console myself by walking in Central Park. As I enter by the Lagoon at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2023

Permanent Revolution

by R. R. Reno

Why is our collective mood so sour? We are awash with material wealth, and technology provides us with unprecedented powers. But this veneer of well-being masks a deeper crisis. Voter discontent, expressed in populist rejections of establishment candidates and platforms in favor of rabble-rousers on . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2023

Benedict’s Dilemma

by Sam Zeno Conedera and Vincent L. Strand

In his 2005 Christmas address to the Roman Curia, the recently elected Pope ­Benedict XVI said that one main task of the Second Vatican Council had been to clarify the relation between Church and state. The pope stated that in the twentieth century, “Catholic statesmen demonstrated that a modern . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2023