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Cardinal Pell’s Legacy
In March 2019, Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino, emeritus archbishop of Caracas, entered my office and saw above…
Why Boris Got Married in a Catholic Church
On May 29, U. K. Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson married his girlfriend Carrie Symonds—a…
No SAT, No ACT, No Problem?
The University of California recently dropped the SAT and ACT requirement from the applicant packet. It’s no…
The Oldest Cathedral and the Newest Challenge
It’s now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but…
Atheists Against Antiracism
The Elect:Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive Americaby john mcwhorter substack, $5/month Cynical…
Reactionary Feminism
When I was about ten, I began to notice that my father would leave the table after…
A Struggle for Public Worship in Canada
Aylmer, Ontario, is a town of some 7500 people on the north shore of Lake Erie. It…
The Healer: Paul McHugh at 90
One of the adornments of American Catholicism turned 90 on May 21: Dr. Paul R. McHugh, longtime…
A Most Unfortunate Roman Intervention
On May 7, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, S.J., prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,…
Modern Restlessness
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Benjamin Storey joins the…
Critical Psalm Theory
In a detailed reflection at Mere Orthodoxy, William Murrell offers a trenchant criticism of my article “Evangelicals…
Leavening Liberalism
Peter Leithart’s recent contribution to the failure-of-liberalism genre opens with an arresting claim: “Liberalism is centrally an…
Spaceship with Saint Giovannino
We had been pointing out the smallest details,often on the periphery, Icarus falling,nearly invisible, only legs left…
Loving with Mary
As you may recall from “Following John,” Easter reconfigures time and space. The new time? It is…
Born and Unborn: Answering Objections to Constitutional Personhood
Are there sufficient reasons for the Court to hold that the unborn are persons within the meaning…
