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...
George Weigel
‘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...
Auschwitz and ‘Intrinsic Evil’
February 5, 2020
Seventy-five years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, the infantrymen of the Red Army’s 322nd Rifle Division were bludgeoning their way...
The Bullies and That Book
January 29, 2020
Immediately after news broke on January 12 that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah had written a book...
‘The Two Popes’: Baloney, Brilliantly Acted
January 15, 2020
I first met Pope Emeritus Benedict in June 1988; over the next three decades, I’ve enjoyed many lengthy conversations and...