I Think I'm Not a Contra

by Matthew Schmitz

Catholics must now discard the idea of an aspirational centrism, and embrace the role of unashamed dissent. Continue Reading »

29 Sep 2016

Winters's Discontent

by Carl R. Trueman

The National Catholic Reporter reveals the shocking truth: Archbishop Charles Chaput is a Roman Catholic who takes the Catechism seriously. Who will rid us of such troublesome priests? Continue Reading »

17 Aug 2016

Notre Dame’s Deal with the Devil

by William Dempsey

Tim Kaine is a Harvard Law graduate, but he and other pro-choice Catholic politicians owe much to Notre Dame. As Matthew Franck has observed in First Things, Mario Cuomo’s 1984 “personally opposed but won’t impose” speech at the university was a “watershed moment” for pro-choice . . . . Continue Reading »

4 Aug 2016

There’s No Such Thing as an Ex-Catholic

by J. D. Flynn

Catholicism comes without an escape clause: Once a person is baptized or received into the Church, there is no getting out. We blaspheme when we presume to undo the consequences of baptism by differentiating between “so-called Catholics” and the genuine article. Continue Reading »

4 Aug 2016

Trump, Kaine, and More Illusions

by George Weigel

Our deeply wounded political culture has produced two impossible options in the 2016 Republican and Democratic tickets. Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2016