David Mills

In today’s second “On the Square” article, George Weigel offers one way the Catholic Church might “take a more determinedly countercultural stance” than it has in the recent past. “Let me suggest,” he writes in Countercultural Time , one specific, concrete . . . . Continue Reading »

Quoting Justice Scalia, Joe Carter notes that Americans have three categories for deciding what’s real — everyday experience, science, and religion — and that many academics deny the third has any value.  That idea, he writes (with a nod to Churchill) in Prepositions, . . . . Continue Reading »

In Moving Beyond Ritual , Rabbi Ben Greenberg reflects on “a different paradigm for Jewish inclusiveness.” In the article, today’s second “On the Square” feature, the Orthodox rabbi of Harvard Hillel argues that For a generation we have relied on shared ritual. . . . . Continue Reading »

In Why Marxism Always Fails , today’s first “On the Square” article, Elizabeth Scalia explains why the Marxist ideal always fails, and identifies the only place (or the only people for whom) it is likely to work. Coming shortly as today’s second “Square” article: . . . . Continue Reading »

Big box stores hide the “high cost of cheap” , which includes not only environmental problems but “a living-standard masquerade at the twilight of middle-class prosperity.” Ridiculing celebrities for their interest in Africa does address the real problem of celebrity work . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s second “On the Square” article, associate editor Mary Ellen Kelly reflects on Disney’s Christian Past and Tangled Present . Although the critic Armond White, writing in the December issue of First Things , is absolutely right about the tendency of today’s . . . . Continue Reading »

The secularist must feel the religious believer is cheating when he responds to the secularist’s arguments, I argue in today’s “On the Square” article, Secularist Cheating . The secularist argues, for example, that people take to religion as a crutch, because they can’t . . . . Continue Reading »

You can see why the secularist might feel cheated. Every argument he makes against religious belief runs up against a great foggy X-factor called “God” and a useful hedge called “the Fall of Man” and an ace up the sleeve called “grace.” … . Continue Reading »

A friend sends his three favorite quotes from Dorothy Day, taken from Msgr. Charles Pope’s A Critique of Those Who Want Christ Without the Church , subtitled “A Meditation on Dorothy Day’s Love of the Church.” They are: Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and . . . . Continue Reading »

A young seminarian reflects on what it means to wear a clerical collar . The Scientist offers its scientific quotations of the month . Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly asks do pets go to heaven? Helen Alvare argues that abortion law is family law . Steve Cohen argues that anonymous juries will . . . . Continue Reading »