Editorials of Interest
Why Bother Going to Mass? - Crisis Magazine
It would be interesting to ask American Catholics why exactly they should go to church. How many would say, "Because only there can I receive the saving body and blood of my Lord Jesus Christ?"
Sleepers, Awake - The Catholic Thing
Although they may not recognize it, the patients who lose their faith may have made tacit arrangements with God to protect them from calamity if they lived "good lives" — and interpreting God's silence as His agreement.
A disturbing guide to the devilish Karl Marx - CWR
Dr. Paul Kengor's The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration, aims to rigorously demonstrate how deeply and directly the Father of Communism was inspired by the Father of Lies.
Conrad Black: Burke & Trump - The New Criterion
As nationalists and believers in the defense of rights in their own countries, as capitalists and as relatively broad-minded men in social matters and respecters of Christianity, they have distinct similarities.
Revisiting Chesterton and The Mystery of Capital - Public Discourse
Allowing capital to move is exactly what generates wealth. Yes, we could freeze capital in its current location; but then we would repeat the economic decline of impoverished countries by locking up that capital's full, invisible potential.
Why we are where we are - Denver Catholic
It's hard, verging on impossible, to imagine the president-to-be-inaugurated next January summoning the country to national unity through magnanimity because our political culture has become so coarsened that it cannot cast up presidential candidates capable of credibly making that kind of appeal.
Learning the Right Lessons from COVID-19 Can Benefit Mothers after the Pandemic - Public Discourse
So much of feminist thought is concerned with the idea that women need affordable, high-quality childcare options so that they can pursue professional success. But there is so little written on the ways we could use technology so that women could be with their children the vast majority of the time while still advancing in their careers.
The Woman Who Inspired Wicca - First Things
Just under a century ago, in 1921, one of the strangest books ever to be published by Oxford University Press appeared in print: The Witch-Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray.
A Letter to Catholics who Support Abortion - Clarifying Catholicism
Faith involves humility, because it is impossible to know all that God reveals to us. A part of this humility is to submit our assent to authorities and so He gave us the Magisterium.
The art of taking care - Dappled Things
There are perks to straightening up. Mind you, if there is anything better to do, I will do it.
There Is No Vocation to the 'Single Life' - Crisis Magazine
What is the difference between an occupation or profession and a vocation? You can quit a job or switch careers. Not so with the priesthood, religious life, or marriage.
Against Women's Suffrage - Crisis Magazine
One hundred years later to the day, any sober and dispassionate mind must conclude that giving ladies the right to vote was the single greatest catastrophe in the history of our storied republic.
An Apologia - Crisis Magazine
I wasn't surprised to find that my last column, "Against Women's Suffrage," attracted some criticism.
St. John Henry Cardinal Newman
and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us. |