Dan Hitchens

Throughout history, Christmas has inspired poems from believers and atheists alike. Continue Reading »

Trying to really believe in Communism now would be like trying to believe in Moloch or Anubis. The willingness to give up everything, which animated previous generations of revolutionaries, has vanished. Continue Reading »

Pius XI’s words had such force because he bound himself to what had already been believed by Catholics throughout history and had been reaffirmed by his predecessors.  Continue Reading »

For Christians, freedom consists not in how many choices you have but in whether you can choose the right thing. Continue Reading »

In this time of anxiety in the Catholic Church, the words of St. Vincent of Lerins may offer some comfort.  Continue Reading »

Our age of irony has its dangers—irony can be useful for stripping away nonsense, but not for making sense of things.  Continue Reading »

In reality, Fr. James Martin does not preach directly against the Church’s teachings—but neither will he affirm them as true. Continue Reading »

John Bradburne—the saintly ascetic murdered in 1979 while caring for lepers in Rhodesia—was also the most prolific poet in the English language.  Continue Reading »

Even if robots aren't stealing our jobs, they may be stealing our humanity. Continue Reading »

Christians, it has been said, “worry about what people are doing in bed much more than making sure everybody has a bed to begin with.” That pithy statement of conventional wisdom can be usefully tested against the life and writings of Dorothy Day. Through the Catholic Worker houses she founded, . . . . Continue Reading »