Decline Into Silence
Daniel McInerny, The Catholic Thing
We Thinkers from the Gilt-Edged Margins
Christian Thorne, Fare Forward
Our Kids: Facing Crisis Without Imagination
Isaiah Berg, Fare Forward
St. George: Patron Saint of England, Patronised by All
Christopher Howse, The Spectator
Venice balanced devotion to the fluid world of commerce with an equal devotion to the static world of tradition. Continue Reading »
Officials: Islamic Extremist's Misfire Foiled Attack on Paris Christians
The Chicago Tribune
Up in Smoke—Plain Packaging and Brand Identity
Leann Davis Alspaugh, The Hedgehog Review
Hillary Clinton Leaves Flowers for Our Lady of Guadalupe, asks ‘Who Painted It?'
Catholic News Agency
Too Many Books?
Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books
Pope Francis: Europe's Christians and Jews Must Stand Together to Defeat Persecution
Cindy Wooden, The Catholic Herald
Modern Martyrs
Br. Nicholas Schneider, Dominicana
Confirmation Bias
Michael A. Marchal, America
Fear and Loathing in American Politics
Ross Douthat, The New York Times
The latest issue of the Georgia Bulletin, newspaper of the Atlanta Archdiocese, announces a new pastoral plan aimed at expanding and unifying the congregation. The plan is the result of a survey that drew nearly 15,000 responses, followed by delegate sessions in ten deaneries and a Convocation of Priests. Initially, four hundred recommendations came in, which have now been refined to fourteen key issues. Continue Reading »
Relocating Enchantment
Charlie Clark, Fare Forward
Friends, This is Not Tolerance
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review
‘Reading Lists, Outfits, Even Salads Are Curated-It's Absurd'
David Balzer, The Guardian
Art, Artifice, and Artifact
Quraysh Ali Lansana, Poetry Magazine
Will Pope Francis Break the Church?
Ross Douthat, The Atlantic
The Roots of a Reforming Conservatism
Yuval Levin, Modern Age
A Revolutionary Yemen
Bilal Zenab Ahmed, Jacobin
No Marriage Is an Island
Eve Tushnet, American Conservative
The fact that this hatchet job on Thomas More appears in an impeccably well-done BBC production shows how fast our culture is changing, and how much work defenders of religious liberty have before them. Continue Reading »
Islamic State Shoots and Beheads Thirty Ethiopian Christians in Libya
Sylvia Westall, Reuters
Myths About Attending College Debunked
Christopher Nelson, Imaginative Conservative
Why Is Israel Called Israel?
Elon Gilad, Haaretz
How Do You Imagine God?
J. David Nolan, Aleteia
Yuval Levin has an interesting commentary at the blog of National Review. It’s entitled “The Church of the Left,” and it argues for an important shift in the understanding of where religious objectors stand today after the Indiana affair.The shift goes back to the Bill of Rights. . . . . Continue Reading »
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