Charles Malik, Christian Diplomat

by Habib C. Malik

Malik’s Christianity is present in everything he wrote and said, and any true account of the man will acknowledge this. Continue Reading »

28 Apr 2022

The Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow

by George Weigel

A meeting between the current Bishop of Rome and the current Patriarch of Moscow would not have been a meeting of two religious leaders. It would have been a meeting between a religious leader and an instrument of Russian state power. Continue Reading »

27 Apr 2022

Dispiriting Signs for the Synod on Synodality

by Hans Feichtinger

Reform will only happen if the Church remembers that she exists because of Christ and “in order to evangelize,” as Paul VI said. Continue Reading »

26 Apr 2022

Religion in the Public Square

by Mark Bauerlein

Chad Pecknold joins the podcast to discuss his recent Postliberal Order articles, “The Religious Nature of the City” and “Imago Dei as a Political Concept.” Continue Reading »

25 Apr 2022

Artists and Abortion

by Jonathon Van Maren

We desperately need more artists like William Kurelek to expose the carnage beneath the surface of our society, and to begin a conversation on why it must end. Continue Reading »

25 Apr 2022

Keep Christianity Strange

by Justin Lee

For many Christians, the perennial temptation to immanentize the eschaton has become so familiar it is often invisible. In Midnight Mass, the trope of vampirism splashes that invisible temptation with vivid blood, and we are reminded that chiliastic labor only builds kingdoms of hell. Continue Reading »

22 Apr 2022

The Recovery of Fraternal Correction Among Bishops

by George Weigel

The Church has a “form” given it by Christ, and all true Catholic reform is in reference to that form. Continue Reading »

20 Apr 2022

The Dreams of Sholem Asch

by David Randall

Sholem Asch's 1939 novel The Nazarene deserves new readers. Continue Reading »

15 Apr 2022

The Tears of Things

by Peter J. Leithart

Having suffered all, Christ can sympathize with all. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Continue Reading »

15 Apr 2022

Why I Signed the Open Letter to Germany's Bishops

by Salvatore J. Cordileone

I hope and pray that the German bishops will listen to the Holy Father and their brother bishops and turn from their path of division.  Continue Reading »

14 Apr 2022