Alvin Plantinga’s Masterful Achievement

by William Doino Jr.

Alvin Plantinga is justly celebrated for sparking a global renaissance in Christian philosophy. Continue Reading »

5 Jun 2017

Samson’s Spirituality

by Peter J. Leithart

Samson is the most Spiritual man in the Old Testament, the most Pentecostal of Israel’s heroes. Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2017

Pope Francis’s Dichotomies

by Paul Seaton

Pope Francis’s thought involves a series of dichotomies: North-South, imperial-populist, ideological-historical, abstract-concrete, and so on. Rourke shows in detail the intellectual formation that gave rise to this eccentric version of the social magisterium. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

Watching George Pell

by Philippa Martyr

In a world where too many bishops have failed us in ways too terrible to mention, George Pell has yet to do so. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

Singing Aquinas in L.A.

by Dana Gioia

When I was a child in parochial school, we began each morning with ­daily Mass. My mother worked nights, and no one in my family was an early riser. I inevitably arrived late to church. The nuns stared disapprovingly as I slipped in among my more punctual classmates in our assigned pews. This . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

The Three Necessary Societies

by Russell Hittinger

Rerum Novarum (1891) begins with this sentence: “That the spirit of new things [revolutionary change], which has long been disturbing the nations of the world, should have passed beyond the sphere of politics and made its influence felt in the cognate sphere of practical economics is not . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

How to Look at a Tree

by Joshua P. Hochschild

Across the road from my house, presiding over a patch of lawn between my parish church and the old schoolhouse, there is a chestnut tree. I cannot say that the tree is particularly important to me; days can go by without my looking at it or taking any thought of it. And yet, if I turn my attention . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

I Like It at Home

by Mark Bauerlein

“All my brothers went West and took up land, but I hung on to New England and I hung on to the old farm, not because the paint mine was on it, but because the old house was on it—and the graves.” That’s what Silas Lapham tells a Boston journalist in the opening scene of William Dean . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

The Remaking of Protestantism

by Dale M. Coulter

As we celebrate 500 years of the Reformation, we should remember that a new reformation is occurring right before our eyes. Continue Reading »

31 May 2017

Interreligious Dialogue with Edge and Purpose

by George Weigel

What Benedict outlined in 2006 remains true eleven years later: In order to live in peace with “the rest,” Islam must find within its own religious and intellectual resources a way to affirm religious tolerance. Continue Reading »

31 May 2017