Love and Awe
by Cole S. AronsonLove can purify awe of both an impulse toward paralysis and an impulse toward self-hatred. Continue Reading »
Heroism and Priesthood, Dachau and Amazonia
by George WeigelThe story of Blessed Karl Leisner is an inspiration to all priests. Continue Reading »
Proselytizing, a Pelagian Temptation
by R. R. RenoPastor Kevin Martin and Editor R. R. Reno discuss the proper role of missions in the church. Continue Reading »
The Spirit of Speech
by Cole S. AronsonSpeech, especially vows, allows man to follow in the ways of God by creating something out of nothing. Continue Reading »
Extraordinary Coincidence, Contemporary Lesson
by George WeigelPope John Paul II's Victory Square homily symbolizes a Catholic and Polish triumph over years of attempted Russification. Continue Reading »
Scandal in South Carolina
by Christopher TollefsenOver and over again our bishops' failures of judgment have been ignored as “private” issues. Continue Reading »
Orthodoxy and the Latin Mass
by Audra DugandzicA study on Traditional Latin Mass attendees suffers from several fatal flaws. Continue Reading »
The Epistle of James in the Current Crisis
by Peter J. LeithartThe Epistle of James, as understood within its first-century context, is still relevant today. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousImmigration 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 »
Nietzsche’s Pilate
by Mark BauerleinIn one of his most irreverent moments, in the wild little book The Anti-Christ, composed not long before he completely lost his mind, Nietzsche states that there is only one admirable figure in the entire New Testament, one character alone who deserves our respect: Pontius Pilate. It’s an . . . . Continue Reading »
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