The Vatican’s Choice: Jimmy Lai or Xi Jinping?

by George Weigel

This latest display of Beijing’s intent to enforce communist power in Hong Kong coincides with the most recent persecution of Jimmy Lai.  Continue Reading »

3 Jun 2020 0

Witnessing Martyrdom

by Hans Boersma

We need to relearn the joy of suffering in Christ and prepare for martyrdom. Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2020 0

A Call To Conversion

by Dale M. Coulter

Opposing racism and prejudice must be part of the church’s pro-life stance. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2020 0

Historian of the Present

by John Wilson

Michael Connelly is a historian of the present, telling us what is “happening” with immediacy and imaginative depth through his crime novels.   Continue Reading »

29 May 2020 0

An Attack on Free Speech in Finland

by Jonathon Van Maren

Finland continues to persecute parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen for publicly defending the biblical view of homosexuality. Continue Reading »

28 May 2020 0

Extraordinary Evangelization in Extraordinary Times

by George Weigel

What Father Alexander Sherbrooke has done at St. Patrick’s Church in London is little short of miraculous. Continue Reading »

27 May 2020 0

Homeschoolers and Ideologues

by Samuel D. James

Harvard professor Elizabeth Bartholet seems to think that only public schools are capable of creating responsible, mature, informed citizens. Continue Reading »

26 May 2020 0

What We’ve Been Reading—May 2020

by Editors

Mark Bauerlein on Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind and Veronica Clarke on Xavier de Maistre's A Journey Around My Room. Continue Reading »

25 May 2020 0

Babies For Sale

by Jennifer Lahl

The New York State Legislature has legalized commercial gestational surrogacy—the contractual renting of wombs and the buying and selling of newborn babies. Continue Reading »

22 May 2020 0

The Idea of the Catholic School

by C. C. Pecknold

Catholic schools serve the common good of Catholics but also the nation as a whole. Continue Reading »

22 May 2020 0