Katherine Infantine

The King’s College “can seek perhaps no better model than Carl F. H. Henry, “ on whom Gregory A. Thornbury, the recently-announced incoming president of the King’s College, “happens to be an expert and happens to have just written a book.” says Gene Fant . . . . Continue Reading »

“Medicalizing our social problems isn’t healthy. It undermines personal responsibility and renders important character-building virtues such as self-restraint and discipline hopelessly passé,” says Wesley J. Smith in today’s column . “Lowering expectations for . . . . Continue Reading »

“Even though a better Republican media strategy is necessary, it would not be sufficient,” says Pete Spiliakos in today’s column . “If Republicans want to do better among right-leaning nonwhites, they have to become a different right-leaning party.” One can be for a . . . . Continue Reading »

“Without restoration [of St. Patrick’s Cathedral] both we, the visitors and the walkers-by, and the cathedral herself will fall apart,” says Kate Monaghan in today’s column . An article mentioned on  this blog  from the  New York Times  in 2012 (at the . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel remembers Andrew Greeley in today’s column . . . . Catholicism was duller after Greeley was felled by an accident in 2008, and the Church feels emptier since his death. [One night] I found Andy and his secretary in the glory that was “Armando’s,” a trattoria near . . . . Continue Reading »

America’s history suggests the clergy best steer clear of politics, says Mark D. Tooley in today’s column . Eighteen eighty-four’s election was one of the nation’s dirtiest, and clergy were among its central actors. The example [of former Buffalo Mayor Grover . . . . Continue Reading »

The Vatican has approved the the last miracle needed to confirm John Paul II’s sainthood, says the Italian news agency ANSA . All that’s needed is a signature from Pope Francis. The process of declaring former pope John Paul II a saint took a major step forward Tuesday, when the board . . . . Continue Reading »

“Often referred to as the ‘most conservative’ of the Supreme Court jurists, [Antonin] Scalia spends part of his  Windsor  dissent arguing in defense of what used to be considered a most ‘liberal’ notion,” says Elizabeth Scalia in today’s column , . . . . Continue Reading »

In a recent New York Times piece, Judy Nicastro referred to the abortion of one of her twins conceived through I.V.F., who she was told would have malformed organs: “We made sure our son was not born only to suffer. He died in a warm and loving place, inside me.” “This . . . . . . . Continue Reading »

“It’s a sad truth that the democratic and populist impulse, if given the political means, almost always engages in some form of ethnic cleansing,” says R. R. Reno in today’s column . One often hears about how the Muslim world needs to “undergo the Enlightenment” and . . . . Continue Reading »