The Editors

Leroy Huizenga on how fishing reconnects him to creation : Fishing is my means of reentry. If time on the computers is largely my mind absorbing pixels, then fishing is how I bring my body back into play with nature. Fishing takes our nature as bodies situated within creation seriously. I suppose . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel on the Church and the end of the welfare state : Throughout the post-Vatican II years, the U.S. bishops’ conference has typically defended the welfare state and not infrequently urged its expansion. Everyone familiar with the situation knows that this has had far more to do with . . . . Continue Reading »

Sebastian White, O.P., on divine judgement : Has Ted Kennedy been canonized? “I knew that when he left us he would go to heaven and help pass the bill,” Nancy Pelosi recently assured proclaimed, going on to assure us, “And now he can rest in peace. His dream for America’s . . . . Continue Reading »

R.R. Reno’s recommended summer reading list : New York isn’t quite as extreme as Paris, but the city gets noticeably emptier at the end of July and into August. It’s almost quiet and peaceful. OK, not almost, but certainly less crowded and frenetic. And therefore friendlier to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter J. Leithart on songs of the church militant : Christian worship is inherently political. As Bernd Wannenwetsch points out, this isn’t because worship is a tool for ginning up enthusiasm for a candidate or for stirring the fires of patriotism. On the contrary, “It is just because . . . . Continue Reading »

Russell E. Saltzman on bachelorettes and  Humanae Vitae : I am rethinking  Humanae Vitae , Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical condemning artificial birth control. Well, actually not rethinking since I cannot remember ever thinking about it much at all, ever, except dismissively. So best . . . . Continue Reading »

George Weigel on the war on (little) women and other insanities : The forces that defend  Roe v. Wade  know the fragility of that “exercise in raw judicial power” (as Justice Byron White, dissenting from the Roe majority, put it). That is why they defend it with such . . . . Continue Reading »

James R. Rogers on  defending religious “practices” using the language of rights : Except under a narrowly defined religious exception, the requirement under the Affordable Health Care Act that employers provide insurance that pays for contraception and other reproductive services, . . . . Continue Reading »

William Doino Jr. on the true stardom of Fulton Sheen : The name of Fulton J. Sheen brings to mind many things: “the Golden Age of Catholicism” . . . the stirring sermons . . . the amusing stories and dramatic conversions . . . the black cassock and red cape . . . the glistening pectoral . . . . Continue Reading »

Wesley J. Smith on freedom of worship’s assault on freedom of religion : What’s the difference? Under freedom of worship, the Catholic and Orthodox churches both remain perfectly free to teach that the Eucharistic bread and wine transform into the body and blood of Christ. Muslims can . . . . Continue Reading »