Thomas Joseph White Teaches Catholicism

by Mary Eberstadt

Fr. Thomas Joseph White’s The Light of Christ is a most unusual combination of literary humility and splendid erudition. Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2017

The Evangelical Future Is Mestizo

by Dale M. Coulter

Evangelical Protestantism will continue to grow at a slow pace, primarily through an increase in ethnic minorities.  Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2017

Disciples Are Made in the Home

by Rebekah Curtis

Christian couples’ personal decisions to keep their families small has amounted to the shrinking of America's churches. Continue Reading »

9 Oct 2017

The Persecution of Orthodoxy

by Josef Seifert

For questioning the implications of Amoris Laetitia, Josef Seifert was dismissed from his chair at the International Academy of Philosophy.  Continue Reading »

5 Oct 2017

Evaluating the World’s Religions

by Francesca Aran Murphy

Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism deserve to be studied, not as geographic entities, but as products of religious insight. Continue Reading »

5 Oct 2017

The Filial Correction Online

by P. J. Smith

The debate over Amoris laetitia seems strange and strident largely because it is the first to take place in the world of social media platforms. Continue Reading »

2 Oct 2017

The Necessity of Judgment

by Theodore Dalrymple

Montaigne: A Lifeby philippe desantranslated by steven rendall and lisa nealprinceton, 832 pages, $39.95 When faced with a biography that could as well stop a door as fill a shelf, one’s first question is always, “Does the subject merit this exhaustive treatment?” There are a few historical . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

Reading is Believing

by Mark Bauerlein

I’ve been tracking youth reading habits and test scores for a long time, but I’ve never asked this question: What becomes of a faith that places a book at the center of worship if the rising generation doesn’t read? I don’t mean illiteracy. The problem is what reading researchers . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

The Splendor of Truth in 2017

by Charles J. Chaput

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.” Those are strong words, written by the Czech activist Václav Havel in his essay “The Power of the Powerless,” one of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

An Integralist Manifesto

by Edmund Waldstein

Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IXby andrew willard jonesemmaus academic, 510 pages, $39.95 I f there is a specter haunting the imaginations of Christians in the public square today, perhaps it is the specter of the premodern integration of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017