Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What are Children For?
Friedrich Engels was a prophet of marriage in the modern age. Monogamous marriage, he declared in The…
Witness Unto Death
Many were scarred from beatings and floggings. Several were missing eyes, others their arms. Paul of Neo-Caesarea’s…
Roe’s Pro-Life Legacy
Roe v. Wade did far more than create a constitutional right to abortion—it crippled the pro-choice and…
The Long March Ahead
I rarely talk politics, not because I have none, but because mine are too eccentric to appeal…
Maps, Flowers, Leaves and Weeds
They trade these old books with scarce a flip, / Some autographed, some lovingly signed. ...
Cowboys in Winter
The Sons of Katie Elder make such noise! Dad’s fast asleep, despite his three grandsons waving their…
Rediscovering Paul VI
When the Vatican recently announced its new candidates for sainthood, there was a remarkable name on its…
How Microphones Muffle Good Preaching
Technology changes things. Perhaps that seems obvious; one need think only of the advances made in areas…
Bah!
Mired deep in winter solstice cold and gloom, / Craving festivities aglow with cheer...
Just Kidding
Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate by Christine Overall MIT, 272 pages, $27.95 This book, like my…
Ivy Reveries
College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco Princeton, 240 pages, $24.95 Books warning…
Drop the Mic
Catholic clergy and laity seem to accept the use of microphones at Mass without question as something…
The Case for Educational Pluralism
Public education means different things in different countries. In the United States, it means government-funded and government-delivered…
England’s Repressive Tolerance
Carrying a placard which read, “Jesus Gives Peace, Jesus is Alive, Stop Immorality, Stop Homosexuality, Stop Lesbianism,…
God and the Mad Hatter
Materialism, being a fairly coarse superstition, tends to render its adherents susceptible to a great many utterly…
