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My Friend, the Former Muslim Extremist
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
If You Don't Honor Chastity...
Eve Tushnet, Patheos
Francis, Contraception, and the Zika Virus
Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek, Catholic Thing
Heroic Failure and the British
Bernard Porter, Guardian
Escaping the Amish for a Connected World
Olga Khazan, Atlantic
Christ Tears Off Our Scales: Aslan, Eustace, and the Pain of Confession
Fr. David Poecking, Ethika Politica
Harper Lee: Last of the Literary Recluses
Julia Dent, Acculturated
The Desert Fathers
Mallory Ortberg, Toast
From the Art of the Beautiful lecture series, to summer seminars organized by the Elm Institute, we've got you covered for events coming up in NYC and beyond.
From the Art of the Beautiful lecture series, to summer seminars organized by the Elm Institute, we've got you covered for events coming up in NYC and beyond.
What Donald Trump and Pope Francis Actually Have in Common
Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post
Lent for Overachievers
Leah Libresco, Aleteia
What Conservative Gay Christians Want
Dan Hitchens, Spectator
Marx vs. Faith on ‘The Americans'
Matthew Schmitz, Acculturated
Finding Jesus at Work
Emma Green, Atlantic
Miss Marple and the Problem of Modern Identity
Alan Jacobs, New Atlantis
Is a Surrogate a Mother?
Michelle Goldberg, Slate
A Social Conservative Case Against Trump
Rod Dreher, American Conservative
Fewer Asians Need Apply: Discrimination in College Admissions
Dennis Saffran, City Jounral
Francesca Murphy On the night after the actor Alan Rickman died, I watched the version of Sense and Sensibility in which he plays Colonel Brandon. What a beautiful movie, and what a wonderful performance he gives. Since then I have been reading Sense and Senibility on my kindle. Jane Austen was . . . . Continue Reading »
Interceding Discreetly
Br. Barnabas McHenry, O. P. , Dominicana
Take a Look at the Mental Junk Food Colleges Assign Students
Peter W. Wood, Federalist
Persisting in Prayer with the Caritas Podcast
Leah Libresco, Patheos
On the Right to the Most Ideal Life Possible
Melinda Selmys, Aleteia
My Secret Life as a Forbidden Second Child in China
Karoline Kan, Foreign Policy
The Little Sisters of the Poor on Why They Can't “Just Sign the Form”
Sister Constance Veit, L. S. P., Catholic Review
We Are Hopelessly Hooked
Jacob Weisberg, New York Review of Books
Nicholas Sparks and the Evils of Banality
Heather Havrilesky, Book Forum
Whatever it Takes to Make Lent Hardcore
Melinda Selmys, Patheos
Cover Story: The Headscarf, Modern Turkey, and Me
Elif Batuman, New Yorker
A Conversation with Rowan Williams
John F. Deane, Image
A Pope, a Patriarch, and Great Expectations in Cuba
Ivan Plis, National Interest
Debased Coynage
Edward Feser, Edward Feser
The Psychologists Take Power
Tamsin Shaw, New York Review of Books
To Hell With Hope
Fr. Chase Pepper, C.S.C., Holy Cross Vocations
Chess is not a Sport but a Game. So What's the Difference?
David Papineau, Aeon
Dying Together
Clare Coffey, American Conservative
Meet the Cardinal who Recharges for Battle by Fasting from Food and Water
Jack Carrigan, Catholic Herald
Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
Kirk Davis Swinehart, New York Times
Can Catholics Vote for a Socialist?
P. J. Smith, Semiduplex
Why Are So Many Newborns Still Being Denied Pain Relief?
George Dvorsky, Gizmodo
Liberalism and the Collapse of the University
Elliot Milco, Paraphasic
What Makes Great Detective Fiction, According to T. S. Eliot?
Paul Grimstad, New Yorker
We Have Seen His Glory: A Response to A Certain Philosophical Rejection of the Christian Faith
Edmund Waldstein, O. Cist., Sancrucensis
Coco Chanel had no precedent in fashion. Her forerunners were the saints who denounced society and attacked the flesh. In her unrelenting seriousness, her allergy to frivolity, her “puritanical blacks” (as she called them), we recognize the Calvin who conquered Paris. The most precious relics this dubious saint left behind are handbags, dresses, and jewelry. More affordable—and only slightly less compelling—is Paul Morand’s The Allure of Chanel.
Dispatch from Sundance
Alissa Wilkinson, Christianity Today
What Do Anti-Abortion Demonstraters Want (Besides An End to Abortion)?
Leah Libreso, Five Thirty Eight
The Trade-in Society
Alan Jacobs, American Conservative
Purity and Intelligible Light
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., Sancrucensis
It's Time to Rebuild New York's Original Penn Station
Justin Shubow, Forbes
The Inside Story of the Turnpike Mass, from the Priest Who Led It
Fr. Patrick Behm, Church Pop
Does Europe Have a Future?
Daniel Johnson, Mosaic
The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels
Adelle Waldman, New Yorker
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