Roses, Chocolate, and Ambiguity
by Francis X. MaierPope Francis paid an apparently surprise visit to the home of Emma Bonino, “the Italian politician who successfully campaigned to legalise abortion in the 1970s.” Continue Reading »
Make the Conservative Party Conservative Again
by Lois McLatchie MillerKemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Conservative party, insinuated that those who believe in traditional marriage or “disapprove” of cohabitation are backward “conspiracy theorists.” Continue Reading »
Christ-Haunted Sally Rooney
by John DugganWhile her characters may no longer be the direct inheritors of the deposit of faith, they at least remain the inheritors of the questions of faith. Continue Reading »
Reclaiming Our Catholic Schools
by Thomas W. CarrollReversing cultural decline and the related loss of religious belief in the U.S. is the work of a generation. Continue Reading »
The Boys in the Bandwidth
by Mary EberstadtThe mystery isn’t that many of today’s young men are deserting the side that loathes them and fears them and sometimes longs to queer them. It’s that socially and economically superior players haven’t a clue anymore about what makes young men tick. Continue Reading »
Ungentle Parenting
by Mary HarringtonWhat are children for? For my grandmother, this would have seemed a strange question. For her, having children was not a matter of choice but simply, as she once put it to me, “what one did.” Today, though, children have become decisions we make: an opt-in variation on our default state of . . . . Continue Reading »
The Right Must Ease the Burden on Working Moms
by Rachel BovardMost families would prefer that one parent stay at home. Continue Reading »
Writing Mothers
by John WilsonOn Nadya Williams's latest book, Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity. Continue Reading »
The Mirror Images of Birth and Death
by Molly DeVitoThe suffering of birth brings our beloved child into our arms. The suffering of death brings us, beloved children, into the hands of our Father. Continue Reading »
Reading Done Right
by Mark BauerleinDaniel Buck joins in to discuss his new report, Think Again. Continue Reading »
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