Attacks on the Seal of the Confessional
by Eric KniffinStates should leave the sacrament of confession alone and focus on other, more productive ways of protecting children. Continue Reading »
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Baptizing the Status Quo, Then and Now
by Carl R. TruemanProgressive Christians are replicating one of the oldest ecclesiastical sins of all—conformity to the world, just like their slaveholding ancestors. Continue Reading »
John Paul II and Me (and the Poles)
by George WeigelThe temptation to respond to attacks with force can be severe. Over four decades of columnizing in the Catholic press and elsewhere, I have generally resisted those temptations except under the gravest provocations. This is one of those occasions. Continue Reading »
Human Composting and the Christian
by Mark MiloschWhen we partake in the old-fashioned ritual of burying the dead in graves, we confess that we too look for the resurrection of glorified bodies at the end of time. Continue Reading »
Prayer As Thought Crime
by Elyssa KorenDid you think it was legal to pray silently in front of an abortion clinic? Think again. Continue Reading »
What We’ve Been Reading—March 2023
by EditorsOur editors reflect on Gustave Flaubert, Anglo-Saxon illustrations, Yuko Tsushima, C. S. Lewis, and James Herriot. Continue Reading »
Liturgy of the Dinner Table
by Marlo SlaybackWe are hungry for encounters with Christ. The dinner table should be an intellectually, spiritually, and physically nourishing place. Continue Reading »
Paths of Conversation
by José GranadosThe encounter with God is inseparable from the encounter with our fellow human beings. Continue Reading »
Gambling and the American Pastime
by John WilsonReading this book gave me a sense of visiting another world, roughly a century ago, in some respects similar to ours but in other ways radically different: time-travel on the cheap. Continue Reading »
Israel's Great Compromise
by Shalom LipnerThe protests raging currently across Israel are, at their core, about the conflict over the essence of what it means to be a Jewish democracy. Continue Reading »
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