Essay

Why We Need Lent

February 9, 2016 Fr. George William Rutler 0

Editor’s note: This essay appears in He Spoke to Us: Discerning God’s Will in People and Events, by Father George William Rutler. It was originally published in Crisis Magazine, March 1, 2001. Lenten days bring two images immediately to […]

Essay

The Great Lent

February 9, 2016 Dr. Thomas Howard 0

Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Evangelical Is Not Enough. Presently Lent arrives. This is the forty days leading up to Easter, which also recall the forty days of Christ’s temptation in the wilderness. There […]

Film & Music

O Christ, Where Are Thou?

February 7, 2016 Lauren Enk Mann 0

Hail, Caesar! is the much-anticipated addition to the canon of the famed Coen brothers’ films—a list which includes both dramas like True Grit and quirky cult classics like O Brother, Where Art Thou? Their latest movie certainly bears that clever […]

Ecclesia et Civitas

What Should We Do About Natural Law?

February 4, 2016 James Kalb 0

Catholics talk about natural law, but what’s it all about? Basically, it’s a system of principles that guides human life in accordance with our nature and our good, insofar as those can be known by […]