The Ever-Present Totalitarian Temptation
by George WeigelThe totalitarian impulse can rear its ugly head in well-established democracies like the United States. Continue Reading »
Wojtyłan Fantasies, Revisited
by George WeigelWojtyła understood the difference between those for whom Marxism was a “fascinating abstraction” and those for whom communism was “an everyday reality.” Continue Reading »
Infanticide Becomes Justifiable
by Wesley J. SmithInfanticide is now being embraced within the political and cultural mainstream. Continue Reading »
A Failing Papacy
by R. R. RenoThe current regime in Rome will damage the Catholic Church. Pope Francis combines laxity and ruthlessness. His style is casual and approachable; his church politics are cold and cunning. There are leading themes in this pontificate—mercy, accompaniment, peripheries, and so forth—but . . . . Continue Reading »
Liberalism Against the Church
by Gladden J. PappinThe Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by helena rosenblatt princeton, 368 pages, $35 Liberalism, says Helena Rosenblatt, has grown ineffective as it has forgotten the role that public morality, virtue, and conceptions of the common good played in its . . . . Continue Reading »
God as a Gentleman
by Rémi BragueEverybody knows the Decalogue and, in particular, the commandment “You shall not take the name of the Lord in vain” (Exod. 20:7). In spite of this warning, we too easily call God “Lord”—nay, we invoke him as “the Lord”—as if such a word were devoid of ambiguity and not badly . . . . Continue Reading »
The Caudillo
by Peter HitchensFranco: Anatomy of a Dictator by enrique moradiellos i.b.tauris, 264 pages, $30 Not long after the successful Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944, Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, removed a photograph of Adolf Hitler from his desk in the Pardo Palace in Madrid. He promptly replaced . . . . Continue Reading »
Excommunicate Cuomo
by Ed CondonCuomo, through his murderous support for abortion legislation, coupled with his consistent invocation of his own Catholic identity, has crossed over from private failing to public witness against the faith. Continue Reading »
The Contradictions of Liberal Globalism
by John William SullivanOur globalist liberal elites are no longer fit to govern. They are decadent and out-of-touch. Continue Reading »
Covington Catholic and Our Inferiority Complex
by Charlotte AllenCatholic ecclesiastics and Catholic intellectuals don’t seem to understand that the secular liberal world, rather than willing to make a place for them if they go along with secular liberal pieties, is in a war against them. Continue Reading »
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