1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (337+ words) Here’s a simple, biblical truth: We’re never as smart as we think we are, and we’re never as wise as we need to be. The best intentions can have unintended consequences. The data are at least plausible. They warrant some…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (262+ words) It is not my place to tell the Church what time it is. Benedict already did that, as this essay, which I wrote with my friend Sam Wolfe, attempts to show. My humble hope is that others might succeed where…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (780+ words) First Things And so it has happened. The Society of St. Pius X has gone ahead with its illicit ordination of four new bishops, and the Vatican has responded with the expected announcement that the act is schismatic, incurring the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (120+ words) And yet, simply because modern applications of just war theory are outdated (or misunderstood and misused) does not mean we are called to discard the theory. Rather, we need to revisit it from the evangelical counter-praxis of love. War, for…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (244+ words) While this may not be an urgent problem for Yeats scholars, it does present a difficulty for an institution with teaching authority like the Church. The integrity of doctrine depends on the precision with which it is stated. Hallucinations—the…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (147+ words) As America approaches its 250th birthday, it would do well to remember that the emblematic figure of the second half of the twentieth century had such high hopes for us: hopes that now seem a call to a national examination of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (274+ words) Repetition, it’s said, can be the mother of learning. So, in light of recent Catholic debates about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, permit me to reprise, with slight adjustments, parts of a column from twenty-four…...