Matthew Cantirino

Roger Williams, the dissident Puritan statesman who founded Rhode Island after being exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, has become something of a touchstone for everyone from middle-school textbook writers to politicians looking to add a rhetorical flourish to an upcoming . . . . Continue Reading »

A New Apostolic Movement? Gregory Metzger,  Books & Culture The Wisdom of Holy Fools Joe Simmons S.J.,  The Jesuit Post The St. John Fisher Missale Fr. Tim Finigan,  Hermeneutic of Continuity The Flaw in Jefferson’s Idea of ‘Ward Republics’ Will Hoyt,  . . . . Continue Reading »

At the Door of the Temple Bishop Philip Tartaglia, Public Discourse Circumcision Ruling Condemned as “Minefield” Kate Connolly,   The Guardian Americans Losing Confidence in Everything but Themselves? Mark Penn,  The Atlantic The Jesus Seminar Goes to Hollywood Tim . . . . Continue Reading »

Brian Doyle investigates Edmund Burke’s personal life  in this month’s American Scholar . Though almost everyone of a certain cultural-political persuasion “claims Edmund Burke as his patron saint, political forefather, lodestar and compass point, ancestral bulwark against . . . . Continue Reading »

The Economist hosts a jarring story of a mother in rural China forced to endure a coerced abortion while seven months pregnant at the hands of government family-planning officials. But why the magazine reports on this particular case, which in some ways is tragically not unique at all, is . . . . Continue Reading »

Democracy as Concentration Matthew Flinders,  Oxford University Press Blog Democracy as Distraction Louis René Beres,   Oxford University Press Blog A Fresh Conversation and a New Magazine Tony Rossi, Patheos Universities and the Medieval World: An Economist’s Take Davide . . . . Continue Reading »

John Starke picks the mind of Fred Sanders , associate professor at Biola University, at The Gospel Coalition . Perhaps unsurprisingly, the exchange largely revolves around the subject of why Sanders is not a Calvinist, given his admission that: . . . it took me some time to come around to see . . . . Continue Reading »

Of Anti-Semitism and The Prague Cemetery Omri Ceren,  Commentary Revolutionary Sermons That Rang with ‘Notes of Freedom’ Ryan Messmore,  The Foundry Leah Libresco Interviewed on CNN Brandon Vogt / CNN “The Strongest Political Instrument of Our Time” Joe . . . . Continue Reading »

At Vox Nova, Kelly Wilson has published an extended examination of the dilemma posed to those who find themselves struggling with Church teaching, whether because they authentically lack conviction or understanding or deal doubt from a more cynical place, as in the case of ideologically-driven op-ed . . . . Continue Reading »

Changes in the Curia Andrea Tornielli,  Vatican Insider Lutherans and Catholics Together Julia Polese, Juicy Ecumenism The Story of the Reformation Needs Reforming Eamon Duffy, Telegraph (UK) Reflections on the Nativity of John the Baptist Fr. Mark J. Hunt,  Words of the Word When a . . . . Continue Reading »