Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., observes in Christ, Science, and Reason that the refutation of those who have denied Jesus’ existence as a historical person may be summed up in a single word: Tacitus. This first-century […]
“The most obvious candidate for worst decision by the [Supreme] Court is Roe v. Wade,” remarks Stephen Presser in his contribution to A Paleoconservative Anthology: New Voices for an Old Tradition. Obvious indeed, yet according […]
It has been persuasively argued that American education is subject to an “Unholy Alliance.” One wing of this alliance comprises leftist radicals, heirs of the 1960s, who promote sexual experimentation; the other wing is made […]
“The ordinance of heaven is termed the natural law; the principle which directs us to conform our actions to the natural law is called the rule of moral conduct; or the right path; the organized […]
“The idea of a universal Mind, or Logos, would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of theory.”– Sir Arthur Eddington Years ago, I taught a high school history of science […]
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please. – CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man […]
Those familiar with the French counter-revolution will recognize the Angelico Press republication of The Genius of Christianity: The Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion for precisely what it is: The recovery of a lost classic. […]
Like so many words, the term nationalism requires qualification. To the naive, it may signify neither more nor less than a sense of national identity, or resistance to globalization. Yet in truth one hardly need […]
“They started with me on Diem, you remember: ‘He was corrupt, he ought to be killed,’ and so we killed him. We all got together and got a ***-damn bunch of thugs and assassinated him. […]
Complaints by people without power, Elizabeth Anscombe once observed, are a waste of time. So rather than protest too long and too loudly about the ongoing liquidation of the Church’s Latin inheritance, laymen might be […]
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