Poland Polarized

by Filip Mazurczak

Polish society continues to reject the neoliberal economic policies of previous governments. But it is as painfully polarized as ever.
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18 Oct 2019

Letters From the Synod-2019: #6

Edited by Xavier Rynne II

The conversation at Synod-2019 drinks more deeply from the wells of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Margaret Mead than from the living waters of biblical revelation.  Continue Reading »

18 Oct 2019

Human Dignity Redefined

by Peter Hitchens

In Britain, the belief that God created male and female has been declared “incompatible with human dignity.”   Continue Reading »

17 Oct 2019

Houellebecq and the Death of Europe

by John Waters

Michel Houellebecq books are documents of an internal forensics of human decline that happen to take the form of stories. Continue Reading »

17 Oct 2019

The Amazon Synod Is a Sign of the Times

by Douglas Farrow

The kairos, the culture of encounter, being lauded in the Pan-Amazon Synod is a Bergoglian kairos and culture.  Continue Reading »

17 Oct 2019

Historical Clarity and Today’s Catholic Contentions

by George Weigel

Contrary to both traditionalist and progressive misconceptions, Catholicism was not a placid institution, free of controversy and contention, prior to Vatican II.  Continue Reading »

16 Oct 2019

Letters From the Synod–2019: #5

Edited by Xavier Rynne II

A lot of the ideas dominating the synod’s first ten days seem to have been exported from western Europe—including an almost apocalyptic concern for “Mother/Sister Earth,” and a consequent squeamishness about proposing Jesus Christ as Lord and Redeemer. Continue Reading »

16 Oct 2019

Letters From the Synod–2019: #4

Edited by Xavier Rynne II

We honor the memory of John Henry Newman, this newest of God’s saints, by imitating his courage, and the conviction that underwrote it.  Continue Reading »

14 Oct 2019

Beto's Woke Integralism

by Ed Condon

Magisterial progressivism requires an integralist state to entrench its teachings, and Beto’s bid for the power to compel obedience and destroy through the tax system is the obvious stick to reach for. Continue Reading »

14 Oct 2019

Newman’s Shocking Faith

by Dan Hitchens

The real meaning of “faith” can be discovered in the writings of John Henry Newman.  Continue Reading »

11 Oct 2019