How Vulgarity Normalizes Predators

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

The more we embrace vulgarity and the breaking of taboos as liberating, the more predators will flourish.  Continue Reading »

13 Oct 2017

Suing the Church

by Charles J. Chaput

Last summer, attorneys in Colorado filed the first sex-abuse lawsuits against the archdiocese of Denver since the national clergy abuse scandal began four years ago. All of the suits involved two men: one, a laicized former priest who left active ministry more than a decade ago, and the other, a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2006

The Truce of 2005?

by Richard John Neuhaus

In his influential book The Courage to Be Catholic, George Weigel wrote about the “The Truce of 1968.” By that is meant the decision not to discipline the many theologians and priests who, in a public and concerted campaign, rejected the teaching of the 1968 encyclical on human sexuality, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2006

Daddy’s Little Girl

by Wendy D. Shalit

What went wrong with Alice Walker’s new book, her first novel in six years? By the Light of My Father’s Smile (Random House) should have been well-received by our literary elite. For one thing, it celebrates liberated female sexuality, especially lesbian sexuality. And it is multiracial to . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1999

Editorial: The Corruption of the Would-Be First Estate

by The Editors

The fourth estate now considers itself to be the first estate, and not without reason. In public affairs at least, the press has aspired to replace not only what used to be the first estate, the clergy, but also the nobility and the commons, the last presumably representing the people. In the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1992