Abortion & IVF

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Pedaling to Heaven

Liel Leibovitz

The most moving spiritual experience I’ve had in the past decade didn’t take place in the pews…

Well Done, Bishop McManus

Mark Bauerlein

Last month I wrote about a Black Lives Matter fanatic who is superintendent of Catholic schools in…

Today’s Fight for Religious Freedom

Thomas F. Farr

Why should you and I, regardless of our religious or political beliefs, support religious freedom for everyone,…

Unbelief, the Opiate of the Masses

Kurt Hofer

Religion is the opiate of the masses.” In a single, swift turn of phrase, Marx had created…

A Year of Reading: 2021

John Wilson

I don’t know about you, but my sense of time has been altered—to some extent “thrown off”—by…

Philip Pilkington on Generational Conflict

R. R. Reno

Philip Pilkington joins editor R. R. Reno to talk about his article “Generation Against Generation,” from the…

What We’ve Been Reading—November 2021

The Editors

R. R. RenoEditor The poet Czesław Miłosz defected from Soviet-dominated Poland in 1951. Two years later he…

Abortion and Class

Darel E. Paul

America’s abortion regime and the absolutist ideology that animates it is part of a war by the…

Christianity and the Enlightenment

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Joseph Stuart joins the podcast to…

The Bishops, Donatism, and President Biden

George Weigel

In an article first posted at Commonweal and republished on July 7 in La Croix International, Professor…

Ideas that Destroy Us

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Professor Peter Kreeft joins…

Spiritual Fatherhood and Eucharistic Coherence

Jim Baron

This month, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will debate the topic of Eucharistic coherence at…

Hans Küng and the Perils of Fame

George Weigel

During his 1977 rookie year with the Baltimore Orioles, future Hall of Famer Eddie Murray got a…

Clarity and Contempt

John Wilson

I knew I had to write about Susanna Lee’s Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History when…

Hot Chocolate in Heaven

John Wilson

Two Christmas books particularly lifted my spirits this year. One is a massive scholarly compendium, The Oxford…