Angelic Monster

by David Bentley Hart

Underneath the searing fevers of Léon Bloy’s prose lay a man of sincere compassion and incorruptible integrity. Continue Reading »

18 Oct 2017 0

Whose Bourgeois Morality?

by George Weigel

Those who dismiss critics of Amoris Laetitia as members of a “middle-class lobby” are missing the point.  Continue Reading »

18 Oct 2017 0

The Still-Acceptable Prejudice

by Charlotte Allen

Amy Coney Barrett won her nomination to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals—despite claims that she was too Catholic to be able to apply the law properly.  Continue Reading »

17 Oct 2017 0

We Found Our Joy in Latin

by Matthew Schmitz

An interview with Edwin Mary Akaedu.  Continue Reading »

17 Oct 2017 0

Pope Francis on the Development of Doctrine

by P. J. Smith

Pope Francis recently declared that the death penalty is “per se contrary to the Gospel”—but this statement is flatly untraditional according to Church history. Continue Reading »

16 Oct 2017 0

The Limits of Irony

by Dan Hitchens

Our age of irony has its dangers—irony can be useful for stripping away nonsense, but not for making sense of things.  Continue Reading »

16 Oct 2017 0

Being Alive is the First Requirement for Moral Value

by Wesley J. Smith

Artificial intelligence machines have no greater moral claim to our respect or ethical consideration than a broken toaster. Continue Reading »

13 Oct 2017 0

How Vulgarity Normalizes Predators

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

The more we embrace vulgarity and the breaking of taboos as liberating, the more predators will flourish.  Continue Reading »

13 Oct 2017 0

Our Ancient Debt to Alcuin

by John Duggan

We ignore the educational visionaries of the so-called Dark Ages—Charlemagne, Alcuin, Alfred the Great—at our peril. Continue Reading »

13 Oct 2017 0

On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

by Charles J. Chaput

Believing Catholics and Protestants alike sit by the rivers of New Babylon, paradoxically linked in a love for Jesus Christ, but wrapped in a hundred forms of entangling captivity. Continue Reading »

12 Oct 2017 0