The Joy of Gerard
by John WilsonYour appreciation of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry may be deepened by Catherine Randall’s concise and empathetic account. Continue Reading »
The Real Damien of Molokai
by C. C. PecknoldThe future of the Catholic Church is not with AOC’s bigoted projections, but with St. Damien of Molokai. Continue Reading »
The Jewish Case Against Abortion
by VariousThe Jewish Pro-Life Foundation affirms the responsibility of every Jew to “choose life, so that you and your children may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19). Continue Reading »
AM[D]G
by George WeigelJesuit secondary education is unlikely to produce leaders if its self-presentation brackets God. Continue Reading »
Mayor Pete at Notre Dame
by Wilson D. MiscamblePete Buttigieg’s appointment at Notre Dame illustrates that the university’s leadership has embraced a defective understanding of Notre Dame’s Catholic mission. Continue Reading »
Solitary Prayer
by Shalom CarmyIt may seem odd to outsiders that in the middle of the last century, seating arrangements in synagogues were the most prominent marker of the division between American Orthodox Judaism and the other American Jewish religious movements. Orthodoxy maintained separate seating for men and women and the . . . . Continue Reading »
Bostock
by R. R. RenoThe Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which incorporates sexual orientation and gender identity into Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, is a victory for gay rights advocates and entrenches gender ideology into civil rights law. Many are asking about its implications . . . . Continue Reading »
Why I Am a Baptist
by R. Albert Mohler Jr.Desiderius Erasmus, incredulous and finally exasperated in his debates with Martin Luther, once nicknamed the great Reformer Doctor Hyperbolicus. In Erasmus’s view, Luther could not resist taking every argument to extremes. We can only imagine what Erasmus would have said of the Baptists, . . . . Continue Reading »
Christian Democracy
by Michel GurfinkielIn the early 1950s, the European Union as we know it did not exist, but a process of economic and political cooperation involving most Western European countries was already underway. And those countries came close to choosing a flag that featured the cross to represent their union. The idea for the . . . . Continue Reading »
O'Connor and Race
by Jessica Hooten WilsonRadical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connor by angela alaimo o’donnell fordham, 192 pages, $30 In 1974, ten years after Flannery O’Connor died, Alice Walker visited O’Connor’s farm in Georgia. It was located minutes from the sharecropper shack where Walker had once lived. Walker had . . . . Continue Reading »
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