Arts & Letters

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Thomas Howard, RIP

Kenneth Craycraft

Thomas Howard, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 85, made the journey from catholic…

How to Talk About the Church

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Fr. Peter Stravinskas, editor of…

Morbid Safetyism

Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

In the spring of 2003, I was in my third year of graduate school and expecting my…

Amy Coney Barrett and Originalism

Marc O. DeGirolami

Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s view on originalism and stare decisis is now a subject of public discussion.…

If You Sup With The Devil

Francis X. Maier

If you sup with the devil, you’d better bring a long spoon.” In dealing with China, it’s…

The Catholic Future

Francis X. Maier

The Next Pope:The Office of Peter and a Church in Missionby george weigel ignatius, 141 pages, $19.95…

Universal Horror

Boris Dralyuk

“Hollywood Movie Posters is the oldest memorabilia store in the world located in the same location with…

Should the Southern Baptist Convention Change Its Name?

Bruce Riley Ashford

J. D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), recently announced that his church, The Summit…

The Case For Amy Coney Barrett

Bruce Riley Ashford

Last week, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, died…

A Man for Strengthening Others

George Weigel

When the choirs of angels led Father Paul Mankowski, SJ, into the Father’s House on September 3,…

Bad Art Warps Our Vision

Leah Libresco Sargeant

I haven’t listened to “WAP,” the obscene song with the unprintable full title that’s topping the summer…

Rediscovering Eucharistic Amazement

George Weigel

In his 2003 encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist), Pope St. John Paul II…

How to Reform Higher Education

R. R. Reno

Congress is deadlocked over a $1 trillion coronavirus relief bill. As our representatives hash out their differences,…

The Real Damien of Molokai

C. C. Pecknold

Marisol Escobar’s statue of St. Damien of Molokai has graced the statuary hall in the U.S. Capitol…

By That Heart Known

James Matthew Wilson

The young man in his cell     Receives his guestWho all his heart should tell     And…