Ron Howard’s Disappointing Hillbilly Elegy
by Gracy OlmsteadWe are owed better films about Appalachia and the Rust Belt—about the “back row Americans” who are at once incredibly ordinary and incredibly extraordinary. Continue Reading »
The Joy of Jonathan Sacks
by Rowan WilliamsI thank God for Jonathan Sacks and commend him to the God of the spirits of all flesh. Continue Reading »
Why We Need Cluny Media
by Sohrab AhmariCluny Media republishes rare and hard-to-find classics of Catholic letters. Continue Reading »
Perverse Freedom
by Mark T. MitchellThe idolatry of absolute autonomy leads to the violent sacrifice of the weak. Continue Reading »
The Sinner and the Saint
by Kenneth L. WoodwardIf more of the old canonization system had been in place, the McCarrick Report would certainly have delayed John Paul II’s canonization.
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Seventy-Five Years Ago in Silesia
by Bronwen McSheaThe priest martyrs of Silesia, and the nuns who suffered with them, were victims of a broader pattern of terror practiced by agents of the radicalized left. Continue Reading »
A Year of Reading: 2020
by John WilsonA Thanksgiving feast of book recommendations from 2020. Continue Reading »
Holocaust Analogies and Twenty-First-Century Victimhood
by Melissa Langsam BraunsteinResurgent anti-Semitism is a growing problem, but insult is added to injury when people use Jewish suffering to cement their own victim status. Continue Reading »
Thanksgiving and the Paradox of Death
by George WeigelDeath is a blessing because death is that “passover” at which we can offer back to God the life God had given us as a gift. Continue Reading »
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