Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Our Bodies, Our Anger
Our culture is full of angry women—angry at misogynist men, angry that careerism hasn’t brought the fulfillment…
Games of Chance
You’re bound to lose: the house will always win, in time. At first, though, Fortune flatters those…
Compulsory Feminism
For a long time, what Alexis de Tocqueville called the American “spirit of freedom” was balanced by…
Peregrine Falcon
now thou but stoop’st to me —Ben Jonson The falcon like a teardrop heaven cries from higher…
America’s Greatest Explorer
On July 4, 1776, as several dozen sweating American colonists sat in the stuffy Pennsylvania State House…
Resist the Machine Apocalypse
No two ways about it: We are making ourselves wretched. We are more affluent than ever, but…
Lost Women Novelists
Over the last half-century, dozens of remarkable Catholic women writers have fallen almost entirely out of print.…
Rome’s Concordat
A few months ago, I predicted that the Francis pontificate would seek to establish cordial relations with the…
IVF Needs More Regulation
How small is too small to care? That is the fundamental question now facing the citizenry in…
Philanthropy in the Desert
It is meet and right that Lent should start with Matthew 4. Its first sentence sums up…
Farewell to a Pro-Life Hero
Florida’s most notorious abortion clinic is located at 1103 Lucerne Terrace in downtown Orlando. On the sidewalk…
Why Trump Is Still Wildly Popular
Despite a mountain of indictments and relentless media assaults, Donald Trump remains wildly popular with a large…
Sacred Sex
The following essay is adapted from Brad Wilcox’s just-released book Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites,…
Despair as Sustenance
Zero at the Bone:Fifty Entries Against Despairby christian wimanrnfarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $30 The poet…
Fiducia Supplicans and Doctrinal Clarity
Not that long ago, Vatican documents that miss the mark would have angered me. Now, I see…