Matthew Cantirino

Foreign Affairs recently published a piece by Andrew Preston exploring what might be called the paradox of religion in American foreign policy. Preston is critical of both the Obama and Bush administration’s approaches to this dilemma although not, perhaps, for the usual reasons. Rather than . . . . Continue Reading »

Easter and the Great Wedding to Come Jason Johnson, The Gospel Coalition Benedict XVI’s Easter Homily Vatican.va Christ’s Resurrection and Theological Relevance Glenn B. Siniscalchi, Homiletic & Pastoral Review Stop Congratulating Me on My Pregnancy Mary Rose Somarriba, . . . . Continue Reading »

Front Porch Republic’ s R. J. Snell offers some worthwhile reflections on the recent allegations at Dartmouth involving the fraternity culture there. Moving beyond a visceral reaction to the details, which manage to be both tawdry and pathetic, Snell looks to Wendell Berry to make a broader . . . . Continue Reading »

Ersatz or Authentic? Last Supper Seders Marvin Olasky,  World Beware the Fausts of Neuroscience George Walden,  Standpoint Two Views: Allan Bloom & Pop Culture Mark Judge & Emily Smith,  Minding the Campus Thomas Merton on Social Media Jennifer Fulwiler,  National . . . . Continue Reading »

Christianity and Power Kyle Cupp,  League of Ordinary Gentlemen Strip Searches and Human Dignity Rob Vischer,  Mirror of Justice Baptism on the Chopping Block for Anglicans? Mary Ann Mueller,  Virtue Online Battle Hymn of the Anti-Abortion Feminist Lila Rose,  Politico Can Peter . . . . Continue Reading »

Under the anti-clerical Mexican Constitution of 1917, the Catholic Church faced escalating levels of official persecution, eventually culminating in a full-fledged civil war between the state and the religious peasantry during the second half of the 1920s. Marta Jimenez over at Catholic News Agency . . . . Continue Reading »

The Weekly Standard ‘s current cover story reminds us that Alan Bloom’s treatise on education (and, really, culture), alternately prophetic and infamous, is now a quarter-century old. Andrew Ferguson, in his essay celebrating “the book that drove them crazy,” . . . . Continue Reading »

Egypt’s Copts Pull Out of Constitution Talks Aya Batrawy,  The Globe & Mail Brideshead and Baseball Joseph R. Wood,  The Catholic Thing Conservative Misreadings of Jane Jacobs Jason Epstein,  NY Review of Books The Emerging ‘Asexuality Movement’ Rachel Hills, . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at the consistently interesting Archdiocese of Washington blog, Msgr. Charles Pope offers a reflection on yesterday’s Passion narrative. The annual reading of the passages from Mark’s Gospel, which signal the start of Holy Week, are memorable not only because they involve staging . . . . Continue Reading »

On Leaving, and Not Leaving, the Church Various, New York Times A Confusion of Harmonies Eric Ormsby, New Criterion Palm Sunday’s Simple English Propers [audio] Jeffrey A. Tucker, New Liturgical Movement Jonathan Haidt, Academia, and Partisanship Timothy Dalrymple, Philosophical Fragments . . . . Continue Reading »