Features
Remembering Karl Marx, Prophet of Violence and Terror
On the bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth, the world should be excoriating his ideas and the terrorism they spawned, not excusing or celebrating them. […]
New York Times
Essay
Female ordination advocates ignore theological truth, focus on power
Those who insist that women ought to be ordained as Catholic priests do not simply want to serve the Church—they want to change the Church. […]
Interview
Ross Douthat on Francis’ pontificate: “We live in interesting times as Catholics”
The New York Times columnist and author of To Change the Church discusses his new book on the Pope, and what he hopes his liberal and secular […]
The Dispatch
“Roe v. Wade” Derangement Syndrome
The defense of the indefensible leads to rage, and rage becomes a form of madness. […]
Features
Reading Pope Francis with both respectful docility and critical charity
Catholics frustrated with Pope Francis’ style and record of leadership ought not allow partial accounts to poison them against the Holy Father. […]
The Dispatch
The temptation and the challenge of reading “Gaudete et exsultate”
Whatever else there is to say about the document and regardless of one’s personal, spiritual, or intellectual disposition toward Pope Francis, it is fair to […]
Books
Douthat’s lament: Francis “must have known that it did not have to be this way”
To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism seeks to make sense of a pontificate that began with great promise but has […]
Ecclesia et Civitas
Anti-Ideals, Anti-Theologies
The current intellectual, social, and political situation has been catastrophic for the Church. It is increasingly bad for secular society, where it is radicalizing divisions […]
The Dispatch
Murderers’ Row, Soviet-style
In the moral universe of Bolshevism, two plus two could indeed equal five – or seven, or three, or whatever the Revolution required. […]
Carl’s Cuts
Carl’s Cuts: Hefner the Modern Man, filial corrections, uncomfortable and out-of-bounds topics
And don’t forget some poetry from Chaucer and a classy new jazz cut. […]