American Jesuit

by Tony Abbott

Paul Mankowski’s goal wasn’t to be lauded by his peers or to be personally fulfilled. It was to do his duty to God by selflessly serving an order that rarely hid its scorn for him. Continue Reading »

10 Jan 2022 0

I Will Consider My Cat Butter

by Peter J. Leithart

As junior members of the company of living souls, animals are summoned, along with human beings, to worship God. Continue Reading »

7 Jan 2022 0

Our Shared Affirmations

by R. R. Reno

Your financial support is a vote of confidence in what we’re doing online and in the magazine. But it’s more than that. The inflow of donations shows that lots of people are willing to take a position, to stand up and be counted. Continue Reading »

7 Jan 2022 0

The Arch

by Raymond J. de Souza

Tutu was the great hope for a peaceful civil rights movement in the Apartheid era, an African Martin Luther King Jr. Continue Reading »

6 Jan 2022 0

The Strange Fate of Hamilton and Harry Potter

by Carl R. Trueman

The moral shelf life of pop cultural artifacts seems much shorter than ever before, and the criteria by which they might be judged far less predictable. Continue Reading »

6 Jan 2022 0

Merry Christmas, from a Muslim

by Nasser Hussain

Despite what the British government says, “Merry Christmas” is not offensive to the Islamic community. Continue Reading »

5 Jan 2022 0

No Optimism, Much Hope

by George Weigel

No matter what the vicissitudes and trials of history, Christians live in a different time zone: the time zone of salvation history. Continue Reading »

5 Jan 2022 0

Steven Pinker Meets Socrates

by Mark Shiffman

A transcript of an unlikely encounter. Continue Reading »

4 Jan 2022 0

Christmas at the Top of the World

by James A. Hamel

The next time you pray, remember the men and women stationed in Greenland, living in isolation and darkness so that we can sleep peacefully. Continue Reading »

4 Jan 2022 0

The Poet’s Eye

by Josh Christenson

To seek publication is to seek to be judged. It is to learn, finally, what kind of writer one is (or is not) meant to be. Continue Reading »

3 Jan 2022 0