Abortion & IVF
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Bishops, Donatism, and President Biden
In an article first posted at Commonweal and republished on July 7 in La Croix International, Professor…
Ideas that Destroy Us
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Professor Peter Kreeft joins…
Spiritual Fatherhood and Eucharistic Coherence
This month, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will debate the topic of Eucharistic coherence at…
Hans Küng and the Perils of Fame
During his 1977 rookie year with the Baltimore Orioles, future Hall of Famer Eddie Murray got a…
Clarity and Contempt
I knew I had to write about Susanna Lee’s Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History when…
Hot Chocolate in Heaven
Two Christmas books particularly lifted my spirits this year. One is a massive scholarly compendium, The Oxford…
On Cages and Evangelization in China
Joshua Wong is a young Chinese human rights activist, recently sentenced to 13 and a half months…
Vulnerability Binds Us
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Carter Snead joins the podcast…
Therapeutic Jurisprudence
After the 1973 decision Roe v. Wade, a crisis of meaning emerged in opinions of the United…
Why We Need Cluny Media
For more than a year, I tried and tried, but it couldn’t be done: I couldn’t find…
The Sinner and the Saint
Transparency is not a virtue we associate with the Vatican. It is, after all, the last of…
A Year of Reading: 2020
When I close my eyes and think about my favorite books among the multitude I’ve seen this…
Gotham’s Got God
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Jon Butler joins the podcast…
After the McCarrick Report
With the release of the so-called “McCarrick Report,” this brutal, bizarre year has a new low point.…
Vows Broken
I couldn’t bear to look at the recently released Vatican report on Theodore McCarrick. And yet the…