Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The End of Christendom?
New York police officer Wilbert Mora was buried February 2. He was gunned down in a Harlem…
A Theology of Fiction
A spirited debate has been going on for nearly a decade now, much of it in these pages,…
God of the Gold and Purple finches
Finches at all my feeders flash and bicker in ritual consternation and all weather, jangle at me…
Calendar as Catechism
The Jewish calendar is the Jewish catechism: So said the -nineteenth-century German champion of Jewish Orthodoxy, Samson…
Rising, Rooted
Now is the timeto be still and listen,This is the beginning,Help us to hear,Rooted and rising,The sound…
Mirrors of Perfection
Our society is confused about children. We allow their destruction in the womb and their manufacture in…
An Anglo-Latin Prayer From The Book of Nunnaminster II
II. Appearance O Architect of the stars (brightness blazoned as if strewn), you, who ranged the constellations…
Nihilism for the Ironhearted
When a man proclaims nature malignant in all its parts and professes to hate life itself, one’s…
Letters—April 2022
East and West In his memoirs of growing up in the U.S.S.R., Wolfgang Leonhard recalled how he…
A Grief Philosophized
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Michael Cholbi joins the podcast…
Archbishop Viganò and Colonel Grace-Groundling-Marchpole
One of the minor characters in Evelyn Waugh’s World War II trilogy, Sword of Honor, is the…
Agatha Christie, Christian Writer
We regularly require the intellectual equivalent of “fresh air,” but there are times when that need becomes…
Magdalena of Austria
Are the Habsburgs Catholic? As is so often the case, the answer is: “That depends.” While the…
Love on the Streets of LA
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Gregory Boyle joins the podcast…
Alice von Hildebrand, Woman of Valor
Those who knew Alice von Hildebrand (“Lily” to her family and friends) could be forgiven for thinking…