American Politics

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The Monster’s Servant

Richard Rex

Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Lifeby diarmaid maccullochviking, 752 pages, $40 They said it could not be done. At…

Muslims in American Politics

Paul Rowan Brian

In the summer of 2017, something unusual happened at the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) annual…

Every Square Inch

Oliver Murray

Pro Rege: Living Under Christ’s KingshipVol. 1: The Exalted Nature of Christ’s KingshipVol. 2: The Kingship of…

In Rare Form

Jennifer Reeser

Devotions by timothy murphy north dakota state, 192 pages, $24.95 Not a knee is padded in Timothy Murphy’s…

A False Paradigm

Michael Hanby

So much for the “new paradigm.” With the Church now mired in its most severe crisis since…

Peter Damian’s Counsel

Charlotte Allen

Sometime during the second half of the year 1049, Peter Damian, prior of the hermitage of Fonte…

Shifting Tectonic Plates in Eastern Christianity

George Weigel

ROME. While Synod-2018 was trying to grasp the polyhedron-like character of “synodality” and wrestling with the differences…

Crisis at CUA

Charlotte Allen

It’s a shocking and ultimately sad story: The Catholic University of America has summarily suspended William Rainford,…

Anti-Semitism and the Rise of Rage

R. R. Reno

News of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh hit me like a punch…

Kanye Goes Back to the Old Landmark

Armond White

Kanye West’s October 11 visit to the White House displayed unforced conviviality mixed with mutual sincerity—a welcome…

The Kavanaugh Embarrassment

Raymond J. de Souza

A Canadian commenting upon the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process seems like bad manners. Good neighbors are not…

A House Built on Sand

Benedict Kiely

To visit the tomb of Servant of God József Cardinal Mindszenty, in Esztergom, Hungary, is, in a…

A Public Church, not a Partisan Church

George Weigel

WARSAW. The temptation to ally the Church with a particular political party and its program is a…

The Theology of Hope

Josef Seifert

Austrian Catholic philosopher Josef Seifert is former Dietrich von Hildebrand Chair of Realist Phenomenology at the International Academy…

John Paul II, Youth Minister

George Weigel

Pole that he was, Karol Wojtyła had a well developed sense of historical irony. So from his…