Catholicism

State Irreligion

When one is delivered from a duty, one is less free. Continue Reading »

18 Jun 2018

After the Irish Debacle

With Ireland having joined the Gadarene rush into legalizing the dictatorship of relativism, what next? Continue Reading »

13 Jun 2018

Craving Approval
Isn’t Evangelization

by George Weigel

The shenanigans of Cardinal Marx and Cardinal Ravasi suggest that Catholic Lite has decomposed into Catholic weightlessness. Continue Reading »

6 Jun 2018

Italy Challenges the
Postwar Order

by Alessandra Bocchi

Italy’s new government represents the most radical challenge yet to the order that has dominated Europe since World War II. Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2018

The enrollment drop in American Catholic schools—from 5.2 million students in the 1960s to 2.5 million in 1990 to today’s 1.8 million—is a plunge of Syrian magnitude. In the last ten years, 1,336 Catholic schools have been either closed or consolidated. Meanwhile, bishops have been . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018

Portals of the Past

by Matthew Schmitz

When the Sight & Sound poll—the oldest and most prestigious film ranking—declared in 2012 that Vertigo was the greatest film ever made, Armond White denounced the film’s admirers for their “obsessive interest in pathology and soullessness.” James Wolcott dismissed the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018