Secularization

A Not-So-Secular Age

I don’t know for sure what the future, even the “near future,” holds, but I do know that—for the moment, at least—we do not remotely live in a “secular age.” Continue Reading »

25 Mar 2022

We share the astonishing convictions and hopes that have sustained the faithful for 2,000 years, extravagant as they sometimes seem, all too often distorted by misguided believers, and yet as compelling today as they were to the first Christians. Continue Reading »

10 Feb 2022

Men Without Conviction, Churches Without People

by George Weigel

Christianity is dying in Europe, and irresponsible priests—who surrender the gospel to political fads—are largely to blame. Continue Reading »

7 Feb 2018

Eating Locusts Will Be (Benedict) Optional

by Carl R. Trueman

Dispatches from a recent lecture by Rod Dreher.
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1 Jun 2016

Faith-Based Resistance

by Charles L. Glenn

Last June, I was in Ukraine advising civil society groups that are seeking to ensure that the new Ukrainian education law promotes religious and educational freedom, including the rights of parents. Ukrainian policy-makers are eager to align their country with the West, so a number of times I . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2015

Ireland: A Country Without a Conscience?

by William Doino Jr.

Ireland’s recent decision to approve same-sex marriage, by popular referendum, has left the country’s Catholic reputation in ruins. Of course, this shift didn’t come about overnight—secularization has been in the works for some time—but the vote reinforces the feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland’s Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain future. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2015

The Dialectic and the Double Helix

by Thomas Albert Howard

The transatlantic divide might not run through the Atlantic but through the societies on either . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2011

Secularizations

by Richard John Neuhaus

As with most academic traditions, and especially those that are viewed as soft, there are orthodoxies and fashions, and sometimes sudden turns, that are conventionally described—following Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions of almost half a century ago—as paradigm . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2009

Can Notre Dame Be Saved?

by David W. Lutz

Iam a member of the United Methodist Church and a graduate student of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. One might ask why a United Methodist would go to a Roman Catholic university to study philosophy. The answer is, I am at Notre Dame because I cannot study philosophy at a Methodist . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1992

Reform Judaism: Undone by Revival

by Jakob J. Petuchowski

In the 1950s, only some forty years ago, the voice of rejoicing and salvation could be heard in the tents of the righteous. Religion in America was celebrating a great comeback. Billboards invited us to attend the church of our choice. “The family that prays together,” we were informed, “stays . . . . Continue Reading »