Redemption After Roe
by Charles J. Chaput and Jim DalyNews that the Supreme Court may overturn one of the worst legal decisions in our nation’s history is welcome, but it cannot heal the harm already done by abortion culture. Continue Reading »
The Cardinal and Jimmy
by George WeigelQuiet protests are not enough when dealing with a man like China’s Xi Jinping, who commits genocide against the Uyghurs and locks down entire cities. The Vatican megaphone was once something to be reckoned with. Its power is fading from disuse. Continue Reading »
How Men and Women See
by Anthony EsolenThe feminine tendency is toward the immanent, the personal; and its danger is emotionalism. The masculine tendency is toward the transcendent, the beyond-personal; and its danger is abstraction. Continue Reading »
No, Overturning Roe Would Not Establish Theocracy
by Ryan T. Anderson and Andrew T. WalkerA law forcing Jews to attend Mass or Protestants to keep kosher would be imposing religion on others. Pro-life laws do no such thing. Continue Reading »
Takeaways from the Debate over Tim Keller’s “Third Way”
by Justin LeeThe political has returned with a vengeance. And those who continue to mistake the third way for a universal doctrine are at risk of sleepwalking into political idolatry that insists upon a paradoxically post-political ideology. Continue Reading »
Toward a New Pentecost
by Charles J. ChaputWhat the Church needs more than anything else is holiness. The renewal of the Church is not finally an issue of structures. It’s an issue of faith. Continue Reading »
Finding Refuge at the University of Dallas
by Joshua T. KatzIt will take a major shift in values—away from infantilization and fear and toward learning and joy—before amiable student-professor relations are possible again at places like Princeton. In the meantime, I recommend the University of Dallas. Continue Reading »
Dobbs Hysteria and Russian Disinformation
by George WeigelDistorting the things of God for political purposes is yet another tactic in the creation of an alternative reality, as both Patriarch Kirill and an Episcopal priest have demonstrated. Continue Reading »
How Mary Whitehouse Waged War on Pornography
by Jonathon Van MarenMary Whitehouse was not simply a moralizing paranoiac, and at some point a half-century ago, we chose the pornographic world that she spent her life fighting against. Continue Reading »
Michael Doran on the Theology of Foreign Policy
by R. R. RenoMichael Doran joins the podcast to talk about the tangled history of liberal internationalism and theological modernism. Continue Reading »
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