Theology

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How to Limit Government

R. R. Reno

How to Limit Government n The United States is no more likely to become Europe than China…

Listening to Timkat

Daniel Luttrull

I follow her story only in part, / like a man looking from a lit room at…

The Catholic Writer Today

Dana Gioia

I For years I’ve pondered a cultural and social paradox that diminishes the vitality and diversity of…

Against Symbolic Killing

R. R. Reno

Against Symbolic Killing n We weren’t, President Obama emphasized, going to use force to achieve a strategic…

Polytechnic Utiliversity

Reinhard Hütter

University education delivers goods that are seen as commodities, as purchasable means to satisfy individual desires and…

How to Have an Abortion

Bryce A. Taylor

Don’t think about the freckles he, or she, / Might have, or how much hair, how big…

Divine Authority

William Werpehowski

God and Moral Obligation  by c. stephen evans  oxford, 202 pages, $99 Divine command theory is hardly…

Saracens and Dominicans

Robert Louis Wilken

A Christian Pilgrim in Medieval Iraq: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Encounter with Islamby rita george-tvrtkovicbrepols, 248 pages, $116…

Dante Decluttered

David Bentley Hart

The Divine Comedy  by dante alighieri  translated by clive james  liveright, 560 pages, $29.95 For me, the…

Works and Righteousness

Gilbert Meilaender

The year 2013 marks the twentieth anniversary of the release of Veritatis Splendor, surely one of the…

Emergence and Formation

David Bentley Hart

A few months ago, I began reading a book by the sociologist Christian Smith called What Is…

America’s Mainline

Gary Dorrien

The idea that American Protestantism has a “mainline,” or ever did, was born in irony. The mainline…

The Smoke of Satan Returns

William Doino Jr.

IIn 1972, on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Paul VI delivered a sermon that…

Saecula Saeculorum

Kevin McCabe

For centuries the human spirit strove / To rise above the beast...

Homage to Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)

Dana Gioia

I was already an old man when I was born. / Small with a curved back, he…