Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
As the Family Goes
The family revolution of the last four decades has not been kind to American religion. Dramatic declines…
Put on Your Body Armor
Concerning yesterday’s decision in Gonzales v. Carhart , a few preliminary observations based on a very quick…
Imus and Me
The spectacle of Don Imus prostrating himself before the Rev. Al Sharpton, as if he were the…
Free Will and Physics
John Rose wrote here yesterday concerning Einstein’s attempted reconciliation of complete physical determinism and human free will,…
Notes from Underground
A word in your ear ¯A well-known physicist told me that a popular blogger told him that…
That Motu Proprio
Having apparently gone on a silent retreat during Lent, Pope Benedict’s long-rumored motu proprio on the Latin…
Dutch Euthanasia
In his book Seduced by Death , Herbert Hendin reported that one reason the Dutch people have…
The Idol State
Sacred Causes by Michael Burleigh HarperCollins, 557 pages, $27.95 One of Britain’s leading and most popular historians,…
Deadening Pain
The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain by Thomas Dormandy Yale University Press, 560 pages, $35…
Tatian on Death and Immortality
A recent diagnosis of cancer I got late last year, with some subsequent surgery I had to…
Beyond “Beyondism”
I think it was David Brooks who coined, years ago, the term “beyondist.” A beyondist is someone…
Right Reason in the Public Square, Part II
I recently argued in this space that Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice…
Deep Thoughts from Senator Edwards
Senator John Edwards has offered us a reflection that gives us a glimpse of his hidden theological…
Prosing About the Web
Writing on the Web good not is. Too fast, it move. Too quick, it change. And telegraphed…
Zinovy Zinik and “The Solzhenitsyn Reader”
In May 1982, the Russian Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn took time off from his work on The…
