What We’ve Been Reading—February 2020

by Editors

Mary VanderGoot’s Broken Glass was my nighttime reading last month.  Continue Reading »

7 Feb 2020 0

Desiderata

by John Wilson

These books deserve more widespread, in-depth attention.  Continue Reading »

7 Feb 2020 0

Theological Fraud

by Michael Pakaluk

David Bentley Hart has somehow twisted St. Basil’s warnings against the Devil’s trickery into—what Basil himself would call—support for the Devil and his purposes.  Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2020 0

What Is an Angel?

by James Brent, O.P.

Thomas Aquinas is often called the angelic doctor because of his profound and extensive teaching on the angels, both the good and the bad ones. Continue Reading »

6 Feb 2020 0

A Protestant Tribute to Archbishop Chaput

by Carl R. Trueman

In view of the archbishop’s impending retirement from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, it seems appropriate to pay a debt of honor by offering some personal reflections. Continue Reading »

5 Feb 2020 0

Auschwitz and “Intrinsic Evil”

by George Weigel

The lethal reality of what happened at Auschwitz-Birkenau stands in contradiction to the claim that there are no “intrinsically evil acts.” Continue Reading »

5 Feb 2020 0

Irish Politics Plays Musical Chairs

by John Waters

Ireland is in cultural, social, and economic meltdown, and nobody seems willing to do things that might reverse this dissolution. Continue Reading »

4 Feb 2020 0

The Case for Yellow Checks

by Gladden J. Pappin and Gregory Caridi

Bishops should consider implementing a system of simple, voluntary, low-stakes ecclesiastical verification for Catholics who publish online. Continue Reading »

3 Feb 2020 0

Goodbye to the European Union

by Peter Hitchens

I hoped that Britain would leave the E.U. as part of a counter-revolution against all the errors of the past fifty years—and that this would involve the destruction of the British “Conservative” Party. Continue Reading »

31 Jan 2020 0

Scrolls of Hate and Hope

by Erica Brown

Anti-Semitism is hardly a thing of the past; it’s a constant, vicious drumbeat—and it’s louder today than it has been in decades. Continue Reading »

31 Jan 2020 0