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Allen: Plan B Betrayal
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Fr. Fred Dailey and homosexuality
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Charlotte Allen on Commonweal
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CA: Episcopal disintegration
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Luigi Mangione and the Glamour of Evil
On December 4, twenty-six-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly fired a fatal shot into the back of Brian Thompson, CEO of the health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, as Thompson was exiting a...
Erasing Christianity in France
In early March, the organizing committee for the upcoming Paris Olympics released its official promotional poster, featuring familiar Parisian landmarks—the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Dôme des...
In the Academic Sandbox
During the late summer and early fall of 2017, Rachel Fulton Brown, a fifty-two-year-old associate professor of medieval history at the University of Chicago, found herself a pariah among...
Pelagius the Progressive
The year 2018 marked the sixteen-hundredth anniversary of the excommunication of one of Christianity’s most famous heretics: the fifth-century monk Pelagius, who gave his name to “Pelagianism,” the set...
Peter Damian’s Counsel
Sometime during the second half of the year 1049, Peter Damian, prior of the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in what is now the Italian region of Marche near the...
Soros and Simony
Left-leaning financier George Soros is known for spending millions of dollars trying to influence U.S. presidential elections. This year alone he has devoted more than $25 million to promote...
Punching Down
On January 20, a federal appeals court heard arguments in the highly publicized case of Kimberly Jean “Kim” Davis, county clerk of Rowan County (population 23,000) in mountainous northeastern...
The Great Woman Theory of History
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade by Donald T. Critchlow Princeton University Press, 438 pages, $29.95 Phyllis Schlafly never registered much with me. I knew her mostly...
The Patriarchal Bargain
Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands by W. Bradford Wilcox University of Chicago Press, 328 pp. $20 paper In the imaginations of feminists and their...
Medieval Children
Nicholas Orme, a professor of history at Exeter University in Great Britain, has published more than a dozen books about ordinary life in the Middle Ages. His latest one,...
A Bishop’s Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth–Century Flander
Those who think that today’s Catholic Church has problems reining in its errant clergy should read Craig Harline and Eddy Put’s summary of the new code of conduct that...
