Books
“One man can make a difference”
Laura S. Gossin’s biography, One Man Perched on a Rock: A Biography of Dr. Warren Carroll, is an engaging account of conversion, belief, struggle, and […]
Benedict Option
Columns
The ABC of Liberal Failure
Patrick J. Deneen’s much-discussed book rightly points out that liberalism comes down to an individualism and subjectivism that divorce us from nature and make each of […]
The Dispatch
St. Thomas Aquinas, Vatican II, and the “Benedict Option”
We should all adopt some sort of interior ‘Benedict Option’, to ensure our souls are not conformed to this age, to keep our thoughts and […]
Columns
Does Catholic political idealism make sense?
Many have insisted that one ideal or another is specially suited to Catholicism, or perhaps even demanded by the Faith. But is that really the […]
The Dispatch
The growing secular totalitarianism—and our Catholic response
A Republican congressman shot; a Republican Senator threatened with death if he doesn’t vote the left’s way on Obamacare; an elite software developer who spent almost a half-a-billion dollars promoting gay marriage calling for the […]
The Dispatch
Why mysticism is not an “Option”
“Only someone who has broken out of the restricted horizon of ideology can see clearly what has been left behind. And only those who have fully contemplated the abyss can be sure of having attained […]
Columns
The Benedict Compulsion
The ”Benedict Option” now receiving so much attention is rather different from anything pursued by Benedict of Nursia. Even so, there’s a family resemblance, since both have to do with closeness to God and a […]
The Dispatch
“The Benedict Option” offers realistic response to contemporary barbarism
If, by now, you haven’t heard of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, then you likely are living the Benedict Option-hermit phase. To say that the book has […]
Books
Christian Politics Is the Benedict Option Now
Editor’s note: This is the second of a series of reviews and essays—positive, critical, and mixed—of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option (Sentinel, 2017). Read the first essay here. With the publication of La Primauté du spirituel, […]
Books
Reading Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option with MacIntyre and Schmemann
Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of reviews and essays—positive, critical, and mixed—of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option (Sentinel, 2017). After having written something in 2015 about Rod Dreher’s project of marketing MacIntyre’s […]