Assisted Suicide and the Politics of Fear
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The Seven Sins Against the Holy Spirit: A Synodal Tragedy
by Gerhard Cardinal MüllerAnyone who really wants to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church will not rely on spiritualistic inspirations and woke-ideological platitudes. Continue Reading »
Red Menace
by Peter J. LeithartOnce granted unchallenged supremacy, a GOP establishment is every bit as entrenched, every bit as self-protective, as every other establishment. Continue Reading »
This Is a Dangerous Moment for the U.S. Pro-Life Movement
by Calum MillerRight-wing parties have little incentive to move to, or stay on, the right when they can count on conservatives to vote for them as the “lesser of two evils.” Continue Reading »
How to Fix Our Broken Dating Culture
by Leah Libresco SargeantAmerican pro-natalists need to bushwhack a better path to marriage if we want to help people have children. Continue Reading »
A Great Christian Witness, Too Little Known in the West
by George WeigelMetropolitan Andrew’s legacy lives on in the vitality of today’s Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine. Continue Reading »
Woke Ideology Is Not Dead and Buried
by Francis X. MaierThe return of Donald Trump may pump the brakes on some of the nastier momentum in our culture, but changing its basic direction is a much bigger, and arguably less likely, task. Continue Reading »
Low Church Atheism
by Sam BuntzThe Flying Spaghetti Monster has retreated into the abandoned sanctuary of the United Church of Bacon. There has been a softening. Continue Reading »
Heresy Costs
by Brian Patrick EhaGrace may be free, but holiness costs, remarked Flannery O'Connor. Nick Cave, her literary descendant, reminds us that heresy does, too. Continue Reading »
Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky at 75
by Nat BrownFreed from the burden of bodily existence and the pain of self-recognition, one is able to contemplate—in a word—the void. Continue Reading »
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