COVID-19

Will Nancy Pelosi Take a Page From Her Father's Playbook?

by George Weigel

Many Catholic schools in the United States are in serious trouble because of COVID-19. Continue Reading »

24 Jun 2020

Bad Faith Restrictions on Public Worship

by Mark Movsesian

The legality of public worship has become an item on our national agenda. Continue Reading »

23 Jun 2020

Spiritual Communion

by Nathaniel Peters

During the Diocletian persecution, a group of North African Christians were brought to trial in Carthage for meeting illegally for worship. When asked why they had persisted in this practice, one replied, “Sine Dominico, non possumus”: “Without this thing of the Lord, we cannot live.” Over . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2020

Phobos and Deimos

by R. R. Reno

At the beginning of book VII of Virgil’s Aeneid, auspicious winds send the ships of the Trojan hero and his warriors to the mouth of the Tiber, where they put ashore. An oracle has foretold their coming. Aeneas is welcomed by the king of the Latins, and an alliance is forged. The king’s . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2020

Catastrophism and Control

by Theodore Dalrymple

A wise man knows that he must put things into perspective, but a still wiser man knows what perspective to put them into. A doctor who tells the widow of a patient who has just died that, after all, her husband’s was only one of 2,800,000 deaths a year in the United States alone (56,000,000 . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2020