Israel’s Total Victory
by Mark Bauerleinjoins in to discuss his new book, Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated. Continue Reading »
Christianity and Italian Politics
by Mark Bauerleinjoin in to discuss their new book, Italy's Christian Democracy: The Catholic Encounter with Political Modernity. Continue Reading »
G. K. Chesterton on Life Stories
by Mark Bauerleinjoins in to discuss his new book, Your Life Is a Story: G.K. Chesterton and the Paradox of Freedom. Continue Reading »
The Life of a Young Saint
by Mark Bauerleinjoins in to discuss her new book, Finding Frassati: And Following His Path to Holiness. Continue Reading »
Apophatic
by Amit MajmudarNot with the myth and phosphorus of metaphor. Notwith lines of force looped in true-love knots.Not by dumping the urn and reading the ashes. Notthrough sonic wantonness, but not through disciplined listening, either. Notwith numbers always setting words at naughtnor letter-cluttered words whose O is . . . . Continue Reading »
America’s Atheist Diplomacy
by Michael T. McCaulFor the last two years, a little-watched congressional investigation has been exploring the nature of religious freedom and, specifically, whether the United States is an effective steward of that cause when it funds ideologically charged foreign aid projects overseas. After obtaining information . . . . Continue Reading »
Lady Scrooges
by Rhys LavertyI noticed it last Christmas: It’s the women who really hate Ebenezer Scrooge. In the opening scene of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, the main victims of Scrooge’s scorn are his nephew Fred and his clerk, Bob Cratchit. Fred enters Scrooge’s office with a “God save you!,” . . . . Continue Reading »
Solidarity About Nothing
by Robert BellafioreFor the last few decades, James Davison Hunter has eloquently chronicled the fracturing of America. When his Culture Wars appeared in 1991, it might have been possible to dismiss as Chicken Little-ism his thesis that America was being riven by two incommensurable worldviews. No more. And . . . . Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousI appreciated Matthew Burdette’s insights into “Progressive Supersessionism” (October 2024), drawing out continuities between today’s anti-theological progressive claim to supersede traditional religion and culture and that movement’s forebear, a theological liberal Protestant claim that . . . . Continue Reading »
What Catholics Should Think About Climate
by S. V. ArbogastClimate change poses risks to people throughout the world. Christians have a moral duty to mitigate those risks, to the extent possible. The Catholic tradition of social teaching provides some valuable terms for framing that duty. Yet this same tradition suffers from gaps, especially regarding the . . . . Continue Reading »
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