Fly-Casting Before D-Day
by George WeigelDwight Eisenhower did not think of politics as performance art. Continue Reading »
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The Real History of Paganism
by Francis YoungIt is intriguing to ask exactly how and why a particular positive idea of paganism became embedded in skeptical and secular discourse—and embedded so deeply, in many cases, that there seems little chance of public education dispelling it. Continue Reading »
Learning From the Saints of the Middle East
by Samuel Sweeney“How can a man know that his own profession of faith is true, while what others profess is false?” Continue Reading »
Justice for Priests?
by Thomas G. GuarinoBy treating priests as guilty from the moment of accusation, the Church is failing to recognize the inviolable dignity of the human person. Continue Reading »
Christianity Is Not Merely Another Identity
by Ismail RoyerTruth does not seek to “feel included” with falsehood. It does not seek to be “treated with respect,” as falsehood is respected. Continue Reading »
The Children Who Kill Children
by Samuel D. JamesAn inability to talk about anything other than gun control threatens to deaden our lament and neutralize a vital conversation about why so many of our country’s most lost, most hateful people are boys with their whole lives ahead of them. Continue Reading »
What Is an Establishment of Religion?
by Vincent Phillip MuñozIt’s past time for the Court to correct its establishment clause errors by overturning those precedents that lead to government hostility toward religion. Continue Reading »
Make Catholic Education Catholic Again
by Mark BauerleinThe assumption that classical education doesn’t serve all students can only be made by someone unfamiliar with the Western tradition and the high place of Catholic thought, literature, and art within it. Continue Reading »
Is God a Therapist?
by Carl R. TruemanOnly as we bow in awe before such the Triune God of glory will our present sufferings seem but light and momentary. Only then will holiness be the obvious mark of the church. Continue Reading »
Redemption After Roe
by Charles J. Chaput and Jim DalyNews that the Supreme Court may overturn one of the worst legal decisions in our nation’s history is welcome, but it cannot heal the harm already done by abortion culture. Continue Reading »
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