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, 1+ week ago   (444+ words) Contrary to online chatter, we are not in a “Catholic moment.” But we may already be in an evangelical century. The previous “Catholic moment,” lasting from 1995 to 2002 by Bottum’s reckoning, failed to fill the Mainline Protestant void. Rather, the post-Protestant…...

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2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (120+ words) And yet, simply because modern applications of just war theory are outdated (or misunderstood and misused) does not mean we are called to discard the theory.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…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (304+ words) Christians instinctively, and rightly, protest. Our bodies are cunningly designed and, as Carl Trueman has insisted, they aren’t raw material to shape to our whims. We’re creatures, bounded and finite, necessarily limited in our knowing and acting. Any attempt to…...

4+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (54+ words) First Things Matthew Schmitz is editor of Compact and a former senior editor of First Things. For certain personalities, drugs such as methamphetamine have an almost irresistible appeal. Only later does it turn… In April, the Holy Father and the…...