The Editors

Today On the Square, Matthew Hennessey writes on “Down Syndrome and the Purpose of Prenatal Testing” : I view the drive to eradicate Down syndrome through abortion as a threat to my daughter’s health and well-being. As the prevalence of Down syndrome declines, so too will research . . . . Continue Reading »

Today in our first feature article, Peter Leithart addresses his fellow evangelicals on Torah and social justice: Until recently, few evangelicals had much to say about “social justice.” Leftish evangelicals like Ron Sider, Jim Wallis, and Tony Campolo, along with Evangelicals for Social . . . . Continue Reading »

In his On the Square column , Joe Carter discusses how moderate pro-choicers can determine the relative value of fetal life: Polling shows that they think the percentage of abortion should neither be 0% nor 100% of its current rate. But what percentage do they think it should be? And how should . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square feature , William L. Saunders defends Archbishop Charles Chaput against his critics: Considering the subtitle of Michael Sean Winters’ attack upon the newly selected Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, to wit, “The problem with Culture Warrior . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s On the Square feature , Gabriel Torretta uses an example from Shakespeare to show what happens when the state tries to be church for its people: “Law is framed as a rule or measure of human acts,” says Thomas Aquinas, and “different things are measured by different . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest On the Square column , Lutheran pastor Russell E. Saltzman shares stories of comforting the dying: I have been called to numerous death beds, and I would like to say I have learned many things about the dignity of Christian death, but I cannot say so. Death is an indignity of the . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest column, Joe Carter looks at the current state of our polygamous future : In an interview on the science in science fiction, novelist William Gibson noted, “[T]he future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” What Gibson meant was that the innovations . . . . Continue Reading »

• We should keep only the smart ones. So says Oxford ethicist Julian Savulescu, who recently declared that we will have a “moral obligation” to reproduce via in vitro fertilization and screen the resulting embryos for intelligence as soon as it becomes technologically possible to do . . . . Continue Reading »

Today marks the beginning of  R.R. Reno’s editorship of First Things . Formerly a senior editor of this magazine, Reno is most recently the author of  Fighting the Noonday Devil . David Mills—-once the editor of  Touchstone and previously this . . . . Continue Reading »

• First Baptist in Center City Philadelphia: $6,090,032; Congregation Rodeph Shalom: $7,969,884; Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church, with its 480-student parish school and the Anthony Bevilacqua Community Center: $22,440,382. Led by a University of Pennsylvania . . . . Continue Reading »