In the weeks before and after St John Henry Newman was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church, there was much talk of Newman’s presumed ecumenism. “The proclamation is of ecumenical significance,” Archbishop Bernard Longley said, […]
Editor’s note: Part One of this essay was posted on November 10, 2025. The Place of Externals in Worship With the three pillars of reverential fear, stability and continuity, and orthodox teaching in place, […]
My students report an alarming fact. They live in an environment, they say, in which there is casual sex, but no casual dating. Why would that be? One reason there might be so little casual […]
The rise of Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and the growing faction known as the “woke right” is one of the strangest spectacles in contemporary political life. What began as a reaction against the […]
The Taliban, who took control of Kabul and overthrew the government of Afghanistan in August 2021, have set up a ministry for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice. In August 2023, they […]
Editor’s note: The following address was delivered to the Theology Department of the University of Dallas on November 5, 2025, and is posted here in two parts. When thinking of John Henry Newman, one’s thoughts […]
Each year on a Sunday in May or June, every Catholic priest is assigned the seemingly impossible task of preaching about the mystery of the Trinity. Considering the number of theological errors about God that […]
Some fifty years ago, I spent a five-day retreat on a small island off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut. On each day of the retreat, I concentrated my meditation upon a chapter of Saint Paul’s […]
Editor’s note: On Monday, November 1st—All Saints’ Day—St. John Henry Newman will be proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIV. This essay is published here in honor of that proclamation and the […]
“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of wartime,” says Captain Charles Ryder in Evelyn Waugh’s novel, Brideshead Revisited. “These memories, which are my life—for we possess nothing certain […]
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