Arts & Letters
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God and the Rock Climber
I’m slotting a small metal chock behind a rock flake. I reach down to pull up the…
Education in a Pluralist Country
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Ashley Rogers Berner joins…
Arabic, A Christian Language
To whom does a language belong? One might think it the possession of all who speak it.…
Briefly Noted — 9/24
Viri Dignitatem: Personhood, Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Thought of John Paul IIby david h. delaneyemmaus academic,…
“Uncivilized” Catholic Ireland
Neil Jordan is Ireland’s greatest and most successful film director. His 1992 movie The Crying Game was…
“Reminders” About Ukraine
Samuel Johnson, that great coiner of aphorisms, averred that “People need to be reminded more often than…
Read the Bible, Understand America
Many years ago, while I was in graduate school, a teacher leading a discussion of Walt Whitman’s…
Restoring Sexual Sanity
Ours is an age of sexual insanity. Men compete in women’s sports, male nurses share dressing rooms…
Is the Republican Party Becoming Pro-Choice?
The Republican National Committee proposed its 2024 GOP party platform in Milwaukee on July 8, and for…
A Pro-Life Woman for President
Terrisa Bukovinac will not be elected president in 2024. If you did not know that she was…
Educated Liberals Have a Biden Problem
Back in 2015, when Donald Trump’s candidacy started to look serious, my liberal friends and colleagues had…
Only One Name
Rome is chaotic at its calmest, but three weeks working there in May suggested that the chaos…
IVF and the Incarnation
In the wake of the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling on in vitro fertilization (IVF), much discussion…
Outlook and Character
In late 1989 or early 1990, in my home office north of Chicago, I received a provocative…
Vatican II and Dignitas Infinita
Even the casual reader of Dignitas Infinita (DI), the recent declaration by the Dicastery for the Doctrine…
