Theology

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The Mystery of Mary

Rachel Fulton Brown

Rachel Fulton Brown is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago, where she writes and…

Hate Has a Home

Carl R. Trueman

Recently I took part in a panel discussion on the nature of civil society. At some point…

Pack Your Bags

Matthew Hennessey

When you’re sick and know you’re going to die you do what’s called putting your affairs in…

Opening Up the World

Mark Bauerlein

I am in Portsmouth, Rhode Island this weekend, attending “Being Human: Christian Perspectives on the Human Person,” an…

Way beyond the New Atheist Nonsense

George Weigel

Given the intellectual flimsiness of their work, it’s best to look for cultural causes to explain the…

The Civil Marriage Business

J. D. Flynn

In his 2015 Erasmus Lecture, Archbishop Charles Chaput called on America’s bishops to reconsider the Church’s role…

Thoughts on the Western Wall, Fifty Years Later

George Weigel

Photographs can capture exceptional moments in an iconic way, making the original experience “present” emotionally as well…

Waiting for Vatican Reform

Marco Tosatti

Pope Francis raised great expectations when, on April 13, 2013, one month after being elected to Peter’s…

The Universal Russian Soul

Nathan Nielson

Russia is turning inward. As the fabric of purpose and identity seems to fray among Western nations,…

Alvin Plantinga’s Masterful Achievement

William Doino Jr.

When Alvin Plantinga was awarded this year’s Templeton Prize, he joined a host of other prominent winners, including Mother…

Samson’s Spirituality

Peter J. Leithart

Samson is the most Spiritual man in the Old Testament, the most Pentecostal of Israel’s heroes. Given…

Pope Francis’s Dichotomies

Paul Seaton

The Roots of Pope Francis’s Social and Political Thought:From Argentina to the Vaticanthomas r. rourkerowman and littlefield,…

Watching George Pell

Philippa Martyr

Cardinal George Pell, emeritus Archbishop of Sydney and now resident in Rome, is Australia’s most senior prelate.…

The Age of Concentration

Eugene Vodolazkin

Many regard Russia as backward, lagging behind the West. This is not so. Our shared civilization is…

Dress Up

G. Bruce Boyer

For quite a few years now, academic philosophers and sociologists, as well as popular social commentators who…