Thirty years after bursting onto the comic book scene, the wise-cracking, pizza-loving “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (Paramount) re-emerge from the sewers of New York City. Their mission, once again: to save the world.
Guest Columnists
Movie Review: ‘Journey’ Is Light, Lacks Substance
Like an airy souffle, director Lasse Hallstrom’s food-themed romantic fantasy “The Hundred-Foot Journey” (Disney) has an elegant appearance and a charming taste but not much substance.
Is History Really Over?
In 1989, as the Cold War entered the bottom of the ninth inning, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a memorable essay titled “The End of History?” And the argument resolved itself in a straightforward answer: “Yes.”
Is Artificial Insemination Wrong Even Among Married Couples?
Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk clarifies the moral issues regarding artificial insemination for married couples that are unable to conceive children naturally.
A Providential Recipe For Celiac Sufferers
With a tried and true recipe, the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have been producing altar breads and distributing them since 1910. But in the early 1990s, they began to receive telephone calls from individuals who had a unique need for a different recipe: They suffered from celiac disease and could not receive holy Communion in the form of the usual, wheat-based hosts.
A Millennial Column (So to Speak)
I’ve been writing op-ed columns for the Catholic press since 1979. I began this column in 1993 at the invitation of the late Kay Lagreid, then-editor of the now-deceased Catholic Northwest Progress in Seattle.
Reagan: Cold Warrior, Nuclear Abolitionist
In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy with greater access to primary-source documents, something utterly baffling to the conventional wisdom of his time – and ours – has come into focus: Reagan, while determined to win the Cold War, was also eager to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Reviewing an Eminent Distortion of History
As the world marked the silver anniversary of the Polish elections of June, 1989, a conference met at the Vatican to consider “The Church in the Moment of Change in 1980-1989 in East Central Europe.”
The Uses of Monarchy
Hereditary monarchy is not exactly a growth industry in the 21st century.
Lessons from the Present
I recently unearthed a letter that my 16-year-old self wrote to my future 30-year-old self.