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Charlotte Allen
The handcuffed Mangione, for his part, clean-shaven and wearing his orange jail jumpsuit with neatly-belted panache, looked like a martyr. He looked like Jesus Christ being led to Pontius Pilate. Continue Reading »
An Olympic poster depicting the Dôme des Invalides without a cross shows the emptiness of modern Europe. Continue Reading »
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 many of her fellow medievalists in academia. A member of the Chicago faculty since 1994, Brown had won two . . . . Continue Reading »
Unplanned has flaws as a film, but it is a compelling indictment of Planned Parenthood. Continue Reading »
An obituary for Belgian Catholicism, like that of the primate who presided over so much of its decline, is currently being written. Continue Reading »
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 of beliefs that denies the doctrine of original sin and the need for grace in order to live . . . . Continue Reading »
California State Senator Jerry Hill has introduced a bill to abolish legal protection for the seal of confession. Continue Reading »
Women are being denied their distinctive female sports, their distinctive female bodies, and, ultimately, their distinctive female identities. Continue Reading »
Duke and other historically-Methodist institutions are lobbying the United Methodist Church to officially change its teaching on sexuality. Continue Reading »
Catholic ecclesiastics and Catholic intellectuals don’t seem to understand that the secular liberal world, rather than willing to make a place for them if they go along with secular liberal pieties, is in a war against them. Continue Reading »
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