Matthew Cantirino

The Mariology of John 1:13 Anthony Rosselli, Until We Rest In Thee Decadence and Fertility Samuel Goldman, The American Conservative A Dash of Cold Water for Christian Anarchism John G. Stackhouse, Geez America: Religious and Illiterate About Religion David Ward, Deseret News Saving the Hell Out of . . . . Continue Reading »

This week’s New York Review of Books features a translation of one of Leszek Kolakowski’s essays (to be part of a collection forthcoming in 2013). Kolakowski, who passed away in 2009, was an iconic Polish anticommunist intellectual, and over the course of his life “the author . . . . Continue Reading »

In Searching for Relevance, Church of England Is Losing It Tim Stanley, The Telegraph On the Other Side of the Confessional Fr. Mike Schmitz, Lifeteen Media Misleads on Reasons for Abortion Drop Michael J. New, The Corner The Monster of Monticello Paul Finkelman, New York Times Culture Begins on a . . . . Continue Reading »

Half of Women Bishops Opponents Were Women John Bingham, The Telegraph The Bad News: Gentlemanly Behavior Makes People Happy Charles Murray, AEI Euro Coin with Sts. Cyril and Methodius Prevails Rorate Caeli Thinking About Things (Other Than Politics) C. C. Pecknold, Ethika Politika Santa Claus vs. . . . . Continue Reading »

Euthyphro’s Dilemma and the Goodness of God Brendan Woods, The Augustine Collective Luminous Sorrow: The Theology of Rowan Williams Wesley Hill, Books & Culture Loving a Child on the Fringe Cristina Nehring,  Slate Moynihan’s Family Arc Hunter Baker,  Touchstone Forgotten . . . . Continue Reading »

Yoram Hazony Is In Error Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic Times Tries to Pin a Label on Dorothy Day Terry Mattingly, GetReligion In Praise of the Cliché Hephzibah Anderson, Prospect On the “Art of Jesuitism” Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., The Catholic Thing Creating and Destroying the . . . . Continue Reading »

Catholics United v. Knights of Columbus Kieran Raval, Institute on Religion & Democracy Does Theism Imply Divine Perfection? Yoram Hazony, New York Times/The Stone Catholic Priests Pushed to Become Better Preachers Tim Townsend, Washington Post/On Faith Camus’ Predictions Live, But Not . . . . Continue Reading »

Cardinal Virtues and Counterfeit Virtues Edward Feser A Leiter Case for the Superfluousness of Religious Liberty Ryan Anderson, Library of Law and Liberty Examining John Wesley’s Troubled Marriage Adam and Magan, From Cajun to Asian The Church and Tobacco: A History John B. Buescher, Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »

Christy Wampole, French professor at Princeton, tries to rally readers against irony, calling it a “pattern of negation [that] siphons energy from the cultural reserves of the community at large.” There’s certainly a wrong way to go about irony: that kind of perpetually cynical, . . . . Continue Reading »

Mormons Surprise Storm Victims Maura Grunlund, SI Advance In the Land Where Everybody Is a Protestant Mark Shea, Patheos Stripping the Constitution Justin Dyer,  The Public Discourse The Conservative Future David Brooks, New York Times A Forgotten Massacre in Pennsylvania Look in the Mirror . . . . Continue Reading »