Disappearance is usually felt as something bad. When things disappear, we sense the pull of death, the call of the dust, the loss of the palpable good. I have recently been moving house after many years in one place, with all its accumulations. Things, often intimate things, are left behind, given . . . . Continue Reading »
It was surreal. President Biden began his State of the Union speech by invoking the Nazi threat. More than eighty years ago, Biden reminded us, Franklin Roosevelt rallied the nation, as “Hitler was on the march,” and “freedom and democracy were under assault.” Today, the president warned, . . . . Continue Reading »
When Cormac McCarthy died in June at age eighty-nine, the news touched off grief and adulation such as contemporary literary authors rarely inspire. Musicians, scientists, conservatives, Catholics, all have claimed him. One man circulated and posted the notes he’d taken after a series of phone . . . . Continue Reading »
“The Augustine School Statement on Social Theory” is a helpful guide to navigating some of the harmful ideologies and social theories of our day.
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It is as if heaven itself turns down to the earth, while simultaneously, the earth turns up to the sky. The kiss of righteousness and peace is the Advent kiss of the hypostatic union of God and man. Continue Reading »
Identity politics provides a cheap shortcut to redemption, a fig leaf that hides man from his own darkened heart. Continue Reading »
The doctrine of hell is coming under particular pressure at the moment. Continue Reading »
We have to face issues of sexual abuse head on—the truth of the gospel is at stake. Continue Reading »
At the center of financial corruption are practices almost everybody would recognize as wicked. In the worst parts of the clergy, too, there are concentric circles of wrongdoing Continue Reading »
That the Church needs cleansing is not much in doubt as Advent 2018 dawns. Continue Reading »
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