De Lubac warned of the danger of transforming the search for the kingdom of God into a search for secular social utopias. The participants of the ongoing Synod on Synodality could learn from his Christocentric vision of the Church. Continue Reading »
For the first time, an oral contraceptive is going to be available without a prescription. This “new chapter in reproductive health” is likely to be a grim one. Continue Reading »
What is emerging among some erstwhile left-wing intellectuals today is the realization that atheism, while an interesting theoretical position, offers nothing to address the deeper questions of life. Continue Reading »
What bishop Aguiar did not explain was why fulfilling the Great Commission through evangelization and catechesis—hitherto understood to be essential components of any World Youth Day—was “proselytism.” Continue Reading »
There is little space in the Christian ethic for the brutish “strength” of a Tate-esque masculinity. On the contrary, Christianity requires precisely weakness. Continue Reading »
The power of parents, as expressed in their choice of schools, confirms the value of Catholic liberal arts and sciences perhaps more effectively than any other factor when it comes to the public sphere and education debates. Continue Reading »
God isn’t terrifying because he’s unloving. He’s terrifying because Love is terrifying—undiluted love, love that refuses compromise with evil. Continue Reading »
I don't think Baggini has earned the right to patronize religious believers, but it's particularly striking that he does so after telling readers to question their own questions, advice he fails to heed himself. Continue Reading »
That AI undermines the importance of our basic faculty of memory ought to concern us. It will only increase the ignorance of our fallen state. Continue Reading »
If October’s Synod on Synodality is going to contribute to the evangelization of a world sorely in need of holiness, then the Synod is going to have to take the saints far more seriously than its Working Document does. Continue Reading »