Men Without Conviction, Churches Without People
by George WeigelChristianity is dying in Europe, and irresponsible priests—who surrender the gospel to political fads—are largely to blame. Continue Reading »
Eating Locusts Will Be (Benedict) Optional
by Carl R. TruemanDispatches from a recent lecture by Rod Dreher.
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Faith-Based Resistance
by Charles L. GlennLast 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 »
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 »
The Dialectic and the Double Helix
by Thomas Albert HowardThe transatlantic divide might not run through the Atlantic but through the societies on either . . . . Continue Reading »
Secularizations
by Richard John NeuhausAs 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 shifts. . . . . Continue Reading »
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