The Church of England's Empty Gesture

by Calvin Robinson

The Church of England claims to be “Christ centered, Jesus shaped,” but not only does she no longer practice what she preaches, she rarely even preaches it. Continue Reading »

18 Jan 2023

Cardinal George Pell: The Encourager

by George Weigel

George Pell was a courageous man who “en-couraged” others—who gave others courage, or, perhaps better, drew out of others the courage they did not know lay within them. Continue Reading »

18 Jan 2023

Aquinas vs. Musk

by John Jalsevac

Futurists exclaim that brain-integrated, silicon-based “hardware” memory will be used to augment our natural memories. Count me unimpressed. Continue Reading »

17 Jan 2023

A Cruciform Vision

by Casey Chalk

Fr. Leonard R. Klein interpreted our lives through the lens of a grand narrative directed by the risen Christ. Continue Reading »

16 Jan 2023

Letters from Rome: #5

by George Weigel

The embodiment of Catholic fearlessness, Cardinal George Pell, has gone to his eternal reward. Those of us who loved him, and especially those of us fortunate enough to have collaborated with him, must now live that fearlessness and call others to it. Continue Reading »

16 Jan 2023

Benedict and Pell

by Dan Hitchens

Both men lived through, in the last decade of their lives, the chaos of our times, but in very different ways. Continue Reading »

13 Jan 2023

On the Death of Benedict XVI

by Martin Mosebach

The “hermeneutic of continuity” might have remained on the level of theory, had Benedict XVI not drawn from it one practical consequence. Continue Reading »

13 Jan 2023

Calendars of My Life

by John Wilson

On New Year’s Day of 2023, I tried to remember my first memories of the holiday. Continue Reading »

13 Jan 2023

Jesus the Holy Fool

by Hans Boersma

Mark’s Gospel is the Gospel of Jesus the Fool. Mark’s Gospel confronts us with Jesus’s folly in at least two ways: the folly of retreat and the folly of humility. Continue Reading »

12 Jan 2023

Bob Andrews: A Large and Patriotic Life

by George Weigel

A great talent for friendship across the divides of race and class informed Bob Andrews’s fiction even as it enriched his life and the lives of those drawn into his ample orbit. Continue Reading »

11 Jan 2023