I always knew Ross Douthat to be a good writer, able to advocate dispassionately and provide tight, persuasive arguments for his almost always sensible positions. The longtime New York Times columnist, who has somehow found a […]
Each generation must fight the battle anew. After watching the Berlin Wall fall in 1989, it seemed like Communism was on its heels. Today, it continues to spread and has become more assertive through China’s […]
Dr. Natalie King, with a medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine, is a Catholic palliative care physician who lives in Utah. Concerned about proper and ethical care for patients at all stages of […]
The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage […]
Deep nihilism and deceptive scientism Our culture is nihilistic. This is a fundamental premise that guides almost everything I write about. The deep nihilism of modernity is the air that we breathe—our deep worldview of […]
In what is now a decades-long trend, reports of American Catholic dioceses declaring bankruptcy continue to filter into the news. To a large extent, this financial retreat is fallout from the ongoing clergy sexual abuse […]
Pro-lifers should rejoice in the defeat of Kamala Harris, and of the Democratic Party, which remains the greatest threat to the unborn in American politics. But they cannot rest, because their job is only half […]
An intriguing medieval fresco can be found in the church of Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in Strasbourg, France. It depicts fifteen kings processing by horseback, each carrying a standard bearing the name of his respective nation. The image […]
Bishop Erik Varden was born in Norway in 1974, into a non-practicing Lutheran family, and entered the Catholic Church in June 1993. In 2002, after ten years of study at the University of Cambridge, he […]
NOTRE DAME, IN – What began nine years ago as a small-scale effort to re-emphasize a Catholic consciousness in fiction, poetry, and other fine arts has now grown into something much more comprehensive. The Biennial […]
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