Public Life
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Babies For Sale
The New York State Legislature has legalized commercial gestational surrogacy—the contractual renting of wombs and the buying…
An Apology
I regret my foolish and ill-considered remarks about masks and mask wearing on Twitter on Tuesday, May…
A Waiting Eucharistic World
Human creatures, according to God’s purposes, are made to be together. To separate us from one another…
Reopening the Sacramental Economy
How can the Church seek to provide sacramental care to the most people, especially those most in…
The Pandemic and Religious Revival
Once COVID-19 is under control and we return to normalcy, many dissertations in sociology will analyze the…
A Call to Ordinary Heroism
Every night at 7 p.m., residents of Manhattan, where I live, fling open their windows. For about…
Coronavirus Diary: New York, April 1
Wednesday. Governor Cuomo has declared victory and lifted the shutdown order! April fools. Chilly wind out of…
An Open Letter to the Bishops of France
The following is an open letter to the author’s bishop—Msgr. Michel Aupetit, archbishop of Paris—and to all…
Biden’s Comeback
Last Tuesday’s election results confirmed what most observers strongly suspected after the Super Tuesday returns a week…
What Is Baptism?
Baptism is a sign. We grasp what it’s a sign of when we locate baptism within the…
Books About Next to Nothing
In The Decline of the Novel, Joseph Bottum puts words to something every reader of fiction has…
Jesus: Less Than Divine
Do you really believe that Jesus had two wills?” My friend’s pointed tone made clear what he…
Replace the Elite
The New Class War:Saving Democracy from the Managerial Eliteby michael lindportfolio, 224 pages, $25 Michael Lind’s The…
Aventine Meditations
Rome’s Aventine Hill has seen a lot. Legend has it that a dispute over the hill led…
War On the Concrete
The stark divide especially obvious in the world since 2016 has yet to be described adequately. The…
