Essay
Islam, Violence, and the Nature of God
Where and why Catholics agree—and disagree—with Muslims […]
John Paul II
Ecclesia et Civitas
Contemporary Tyranny and Catholic Social Doctrine
The current situation of growing soft totalitarianism is too recent and too disturbing for its implications for Catholic social action to have been adequately understood […]
Analysis
The Nashville Statement is part of an ecumenical “ecology of man”
The major theme of the Nashville Declaration, what the Catholic tradition calls an “ecological conversion,” is in complete accord with the Catechism of the Catholic […]
The Dispatch
On great exemplars of authentic manhood
False depictions of manhood as unconstrained self-will and manhood as dangerous or anachronistic are both closely connected to the belief that pleasure or happiness must […]
Essay
The legacy of Michael Novak (1933-2017), a man of Tradition
It is for his appraisal of the free market economy that the late Michael Novak is, and will probably continue to be, most known, praised, […]
The Dispatch
St. Augustine’s Wisdom: Adam, Eve, Christ, and the Church
If we read the story of the fall in the light of Christ’s redemptive sacrifice, it would cease being just a story. […]
Features
Without Christian witness and culture, the West cannot resist Islam
Back in 1991, while visiting a Roman museum, I got into a conversation with an employee, who expressed dismay that Pope John Paul II had called for support for the massive migration into Italy of […]
The Dispatch
Divorce and the duties of Catholic lawyers
Civil lawyer C. T. Rossi, in his essay Permission for Divorce and the Catholic Lawyer’s Dilemma, complains that “the Church has done little to educate its legal practitioners about their responsibilities as Catholic lawyers”, complains that […]
The Dispatch
Spiritual direction and the role of the laity
Lately I’ve been reading the autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila. Although not always easy going, it’s a compellingly interesting book and, now and then at least, a surprisingly amusing one. For Saint Teresa, along […]
The Dispatch
Way beyond the New Atheist nonsense
Given the intellectual flimsiness of their work, it’s best to look for cultural causes to explain the “New Atheists”’ popularity. And surely one factor here is the now-canonical notion in Western high culture that biblical […]