Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Dissolving Age
We live in a dissolving age. Institutions, social forms, and traditional authorities recede. To the extent that…
Saint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Lifeby philippe girardbasic books, 352 pages, $29.99 The Virginia planter and Fire-Eater Edmund…
Forgiving Dylann Roof
On the evening of June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, twenty-one at the time, casually joined a group…
America Needs Work
Last December, with a push from President-elect Donald Trump, Carrier Corporation decided to retain around eight hundred…
Why We Believe in Fairies
Everyone—or almost everyone—agrees that there are no such things as fairies nowadays, and probably never were. They…
Falling into Eternity
In the tumultuous sixties, as an undergraduate at Harvard (for which I have prayed for forgiveness most…
Letters—March 2017
Sing to the Lord Allen C. Guelzo’s “Play American” (January) offers up an interesting thesis: American concert…
The Pontifical Academies’ Mess of Pottage
In a recent article at Crux, I argued that invitations by the Pontifical Academies to Paul Erhlich…
The Rise of Dystopian Nonfiction
I have been fascinated by dystopias since my youth—a youth full of sci-fi movies with grim visions…
Redemption of the Erotic
The following is an excerpt from Archbishop Chaput’s new book, Strangers in a Strange Land. To borrow…
The New Jansenism: A Pessimism That Would Canonize All
One of my students, in a paper concerning the Church’s doctrine on the four last things, made…
The Typographical Reformation
The English philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) once said that the three greatest inventions during his lifetime were…
The Dangers of Half-Truths
You’ve read it again and again. Finnis and Grisez asserted it. Joseph Seifert said the same thing…
No Authority Over Divine Law
In his column this week, George Weigel writes that “it cannot be the case that a grave…
Paul, Apollos, and Cephas, all Over Again
In April 2016, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, England, issued a pastoral letter on the interpretation of…
