Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Reading the Psalms with the Reformers
In the fourth century, St. Athanasius wrote a letter to a certain Marcellinus, who was likely a…
Scientific Subversion
Human exceptionalism was once considered a self-evident truth. No longer. For years, advocates for radical animal-rights agendas…
Always Fear, Always Love
Shame and bitterness overcame me when the priest said that my parents were not married. They had…
Francis Delivers
In the days leading up to Francis’s recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laeititia, one would have thought that…
A Stubborn Givenness
The Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, Amoris Laetitia, brings into the open a disturbing trend in this…
Sure, Tell Peter Too
The message the women heard from the “young man” is found in St. Mark (16:5-8). Mary Magdalene,…
To Render the Deeds of Mercy
A version of the following talk was given at the Shelbourne Easter Seminar on March 29, 2015.…
The Case Against Polygamy
Is polygamy the next same-sex marriage? Fundamentalist Mormons, Muslims, and others argue that federal and state statutes…
The Good of Religious Pluralism
Pluralism is often perceived as a threat to faith, associated with relativism and a loss of religious…
Repurposing Europe
For the Frenchmen who lived through World War II, the defining event of their lives was quintessentially…
Orwell and Contraception
I n 1954, four years after George Orwell’s premature death from tuberculosis, his friend Christopher Hollis recalled:…
Letters—April 2016
Culture I recently read Jonathan Price’s “Culture by Subtraction” (February) and thoroughly enjoyed it—not least because it…
Skiffling Shuffling Skittering Scuffling
As I am sitting at the stoplight under the maple and oak and cedar treesI see three…
Rome’s Resistance
Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitlerby mark rieblingbasic, 375 pages, $29.99 During the Second…
Grace’s Perfections
Paul and the Giftby john m. g. barclayeerdmans, 672 pages, $70 W ith the publication of E.…
