David Mills

In Holy War Over Ground Zero — the “Public Square” section for the October issue, soon to arrive in your mail boxes — Joseph Bottum suggests that New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg deserves some credit for supporting the Cordoba Initiative, a.k.a. the “Ground . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s a shock: Ecumenical leader tells Pentecostals: ‘We need each other’ . It’s undoubtedly a good thing that the world’s Pentecostals invited a leader of the world’s liberal Protestants to speak to them, and that he came. With a secularizing West and an . . . . Continue Reading »

“The liturgy by grace changes lives,” writes Father George Rutler in today’s second “On the Square” offering, The Liturgical Experts’ Long Tassels , commenting on the recent final approval of the new translation of the Catholic liturgy. But there are limits to . . . . Continue Reading »

The public response to two movies on artificial insemination, including The Switch , just out and not doing well, tells us something about the way Americans feel about the subject, writes Mary Rose Somarriba in Artificially Conceiving a Bad Romantic Comedy . And they’re on to something, she . . . . Continue Reading »

I quoted Hadley Arkes, one of the founding members of the magazine’s board, in The Lost Telos of Sexuality below. Readers interested in his recent entry into the Catholic Church will want to read an interview with him just out in the National Catholic Register . Among other things he says in . . . . Continue Reading »

David Goldman’s A Depressing Double Dip , today’s second “On the Square,” is now up. In it he argues that the economy has several deep sources of weakness the forecasters didn’t forecast, and that they “derive from long-term demographic changes rather than . . . . Continue Reading »

In response to my article on polyamory, mentioned in Why Just Two? , Hadley Arkes wrote me with a few comments of his own on the subject, which he’s given me permission to post here. During the hearings over the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, he wrote, he and Robert George had argued . . . . Continue Reading »

In To Mosque or Not to Mosque , today’s first “On the Square” article, R. R. Reno declares that he doesn’t really care about the controversy over the “9/11 mosque,” and then explains why. “Let’s look at the context,” he writes. America is an . . . . Continue Reading »

In Compromise Trumps Apostolic Tradition , George Weigel examines the collapse, through the Anglican insistence on innovating in ways contradictory to the Apostolic tradition, of the “once-promising dialogue” between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. “As I discovered . . . . Continue Reading »

God seems to be fading from His previous importance in the conservative movement, argues Joe Carter in today’s “On the Square,” God and Man in the Conservative Movement . Beginning with a description of William F. Buckley’s famous first book, he argues that Buckley’s . . . . Continue Reading »