Archive

n the third grade, my teacher asked if we knew the difference between Democrats and Republicans. I immediately shot my hand up and recited what my parents had taught me: “Democrats care about. . .

In music,” writes the Italian priest Luigi Giussani, “what man pays homage to is something else, something he is waiting for.” Upon hearing a beautiful song, something is “awakened...

After my great aunt’s funeral a few months ago, my father took me for a ride around his old neighborhood. Newark’s North Ward was a lively Italian enclave until...

Twelve years before same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States, the openly-gay British writer Andrew Sullivan declared that “we are all sodomites now.” Behind his provocative statement was...

How far should one go to “become all things to all people,” to be in the world but not of it? In the words of the late Pope Francis,...

Andy Warhol’s reproductions of popular brand logos have sparked debate as to whether he is playfully critiquing consumerism or snarkily endorsing it. Similarly, the subject of Warhol’s Catholic faith...

The late British writer Quentin Crisp, despite being one of the first openly homosexual men in England, was lambasted as “homophobic” and “misogynistic” for his self-deprecatory quips about the...

In a book documenting his travels through the United States, a Frenchman commented that “there is nothing funny about Halloween,” a holiday characterized by an “evil force” and “infernal...

In our metaphysically confused age, pro-life feminist groups like the New Wave Feminists are offering women an alternative to the Feminist Magisterium and its limited view of human personhood....