Rediscovering Baptism in Plague Time
April 22, 2020
On April 29, 1951, Father Thomas Love, S.J., baptized me in the Church of Sts. Philip and James, near Johns...
George Weigel
After Cardinal Pell’s Rightful Acquittal
April 16, 2020
The unanimous decision by Australia’s High Court to quash Cardinal George Pell’s convictions on charges of “historic sexual abuse” and...
Embracing the Kind of Redeemer God Appointed
April 9, 2020
The Gospel readings of Lent remind us that opposition to Jesus and his mission frequently grew out of the desire...
Transforming This Quarantine Into Retreat
April 1, 2020
This bruising Lent, in which “fasting” has assumed unprecedented new forms, seems likely to be followed by an Eastertide of...
‘Wittenberg’ in Synodal Slow Motion
March 25, 2020
As Yale’s Carlos Eire masterfully demonstrated in “Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650,” there was no one “Protestant Reformation” but...
Churchmanship
March 18, 2020
“Churchmanship” is not a term in vogue today, and given the alleged inclusivity-deficit of such words it’s unlikely to make...
Doubling Down On a Bad Deal
March 11, 2020
Perseverance on a difficult but noble path is a virtue. Stubbornness when confronted by irrefutable evidence of a grave mistake...
The Concrete-and-Glass Box Clerisy
March 6, 2020
Several years back, the estimable Father Paul Scalia observed, of some cultural idiocy or other, “Who knew the end of...
Aventine Meditations
February 26, 2020
Rome’s Aventine Hill has seen a lot. Legend has it that a dispute over the hill led to the fratricidal...
Flannery O’Connor And Friends, Revisited
February 13, 2020
Her fiction may occasionally get the chop in politically correct 21st-century American high schools. But as Benjamin Alexander writes in...