Catholicism

Fencing with Bigots

An imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Continue Reading »

4 Oct 2017

Fr. Martin Does Not Actually Say

by Dan Hitchens

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

2 Oct 2017

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper-middle-class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London. He attended a boarding secondary school (Lancing College), read history at Oxford, published his first book (a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

The Splendor of Truth in 2017

by Charles J. Chaput

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.” Those are strong words, written by the Czech activist Václav Havel in his essay “The Power of the Powerless,” one of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

Catholic America

by Stefan McDaniel

Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America by kevin starr ignatius, 675 pages, $34.95 In The Good Shepherd, the 2006 spy film, mobster Joseph Palmi asks CIA agent (and stereotypical WASP) Edward Wilson an insolent question: “We Italians, we got our families . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017