The Global Christian Right

by Peter J. Leithart

Lauren Frances Turek’s 2020 study, To Bring the Good News to All Nations, provides the basis for a more complete and accurate assessment of the Religious Right. Continue Reading »

12 Feb 2021

Missionaries for Life

by Salvatore J. Cordileone

May we bear the sacrifices we must for defending life in this world. Continue Reading »

2 Feb 2021

Catholic Colonialism

by Sam Zeno Conedera

In Apostles of Empire, ­Bronwen McShea seeks to free the Jesuits of New France from what she calls the “iconic tableaux” in which they have long been trapped: as expatriated ascetics fleeing French civilization to set up otherworldly, yet enculturated, Catholic havens in the harsh climate . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2020

Padre Mestizo

by Richard Rodriguez

On September 11, 2017, between midnight and dawn, a statue of Fr. Junípero Serra—whom generations of California schoolchildren called “the Father of California”—was beheaded at Mission Santa Barbara. Reading about the defiled statue in the paper, I immediately question my father, my . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

Reviving the Missionary Mandate

by Richard John Neuhaus

The editorial in our May 1991 issue was titled  “Christian Mission and the Third Millennium.” It described the complicated connections between the Christian missionary enterprise and the future of an essentially Western civilization that is, in however ambiguous a manner, a product of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991

Editorial: Repenting of America 1492–1992

by The Editors

Congress has created the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Commission. To date, twenty-two states have established similar commissions to coordinate a wide range of activities celebrating the discovery of America. The National Council of Churches (NCC) is having none of it. In May the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1990