Archbishop Chaput Leads the Way

by William Doino Jr.

Healing people’s wounds means counseling them with the love of Christ, but never misleading them with erroneous teachings or allowing them to abuse Holy Communion. Continue Reading »

18 Jul 2016 0

Hating Poetry

by Peter J. Leithart

Ben Lerner’s elegant, amusing essay turns on a distinction between Poetry and poems. Poetry is Caedmon’s dream, a virtual ideal that actual poems can’t live up to. “The fatal problem with poetry,” Lerner writes, is “poems.” Every poet is, inevitably, “a tragic figure.” Continue Reading »

15 Jul 2016 0

A (Scholastic) Sonnet from the Portuguese

by Luís Pinto de Sá

“For me, the true poet is the metaphysician.” That is almost certainly an exaggeration. But we ignore the metaphysician in the poet at our own peril. Continue Reading »

14 Jul 2016 0

Final Advice for the Untenured Conservative Humanist

by Mark Bauerlein

Part 3, SERVICE. When you join a committee, you either make your colleagues' workdays easier or make them harder. If the latter, they will remember the fact and it may very well come up at tenure time. Continue Reading »

14 Jul 2016 0

The Last Puritan Statesman and The 2016 Conventions

by George Weigel

John Quincy Adams stands out as a model for twenty-first-century American politicians because he aimed not to please, but to do the right thing, irrespective of the cost. Continue Reading »

13 Jul 2016 0

Sins of Their Fathers

by Alexi Sargeant

A new film, The Innocents, tells a moving story of healing and grace without downplaying the grief and trauma that preceded them. And it does this while addressing a moral blind spot of our popular culture. Continue Reading »

12 Jul 2016 0

Karl Rahner: An Appreciation and Critique

by Robert P. Imbelli

As in all authentic discernment, one comes to recognize both light and shadow. Only thus can one learn and move forward. Continue Reading »

11 Jul 2016 0

The Reformation, a Tragic Necessity

by Timothy George

The tragic side of the Reformation is obvious to those who care deeply about the unity of the church and who feel keenly the dys-evangelical impact of a fractured Christian community and its muted witness in our world today. Continue Reading »

11 Jul 2016 0

The Irrelevance of Hillary’s Peccadilloes

by R. R. Reno

In other circumstances, the bad odor of the Clintons would be off-putting. But our leadership class has just received a shock: They have become aware that their consensus isn’t as widely shared as they imagined. Continue Reading »

8 Jul 2016 0

St. John the Wonderworker

by Wesley J. Smith

This September, the Roman Catholic Church will canonize Mother Teresa, the great nun and humanitarian, in a vivid reminder that saintliness continues in our contemporary world. Less well known in the West—and unknown to me before I converted to Eastern Orthodoxy—are the many Orthodox saints who demonstrate the same truth. Continue Reading »

8 Jul 2016 0