On October 13, Pope Francis will declare John Henry Newman a saint. Catholics from around the world will crowd St. Peter’s Square to see the greatest religious thinker of Victorian England raised to the altars. Amid the joy and apparent concord of that day, there will be at least two . . . . Continue Reading »
David Bentley Hart, familiar to readers of these pages as an intellectual pugilist who floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee, has entered the ring for the Big Fight. Armed with his recent translation of the New Testament, he is ready to prove that no one suffers eternal . . . . Continue Reading »
A Christian and a Democrat gets off to an inauspicious start, with a foreword by former FBI director James Comey denouncing President Trump and his evangelical supporters. Comey, of course, mismanaged a spurious investigation of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and was later fired for cause . . . . Continue Reading »
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Thank You for the Light” captures how Christ transfigures the mundane. Continue Reading »
Sohrab Ahmari interviews Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke on the problems with the Amazon Synod and the German episcopate's “binding synodal path.” Continue Reading »
The conversion of a former enemy demonstrates that Jesus can and does turn Sauls into Pauls. Continue Reading »
The John Paul II Institute has been hijacked by a new pack of Vandals conducting a new sack of Rome. Continue Reading »
A spectre is haunting the preparations for next month’s Amazon Synod: the spectre of John Henry Newman. Continue Reading »
Cardinal Dulles’s address to the Cardinal Newman Society on November 11, 2001, in Washington, D.C. Continue Reading »
Before that moment I had understood Marian devotion intellectually . . . but I had never felt it. Continue Reading »
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