Books
“I am Joan and I love you”
There had to be men and women saints of all kinds. And today. . . we ought perhaps to have saints of yet another kind. — Charles Peguy, The Mystery of the Charity of Joan […]
History
Analysis
Education and parents’ rights a century after Pierce v. Society of Sisters
June 1, 2025, marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters (268 US 510). What’s that, you ask? And why should I care? Pierce was a unanimous Supreme […]
Features
Remembering three martyrs 80 years after the end of World War II
May 8th marked the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history, in which more than fifty million human lives were lost. Today, our world is once again […]
Books
The Christian Criticism of T.S. Eliot
I For the young to understand the esteem in which T.S. Eliot (1882-1965) was held from the 1920s to the 1980s, they would need to exercise a degree of historical imagination that most of them […]
Essay
The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II
Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005. […]
Essay
Europe and the Betrayal of the Faith
[T]here remains the historical truth: that this our European structure, built upon the noble foundations of classical antiquity, was formed through, exists by, is consonant to, and will stand only in the mold of, the […]
Essay
Saint John of God and a Christian perspective on the care of the sick
The modern debate over health care is certainly a debate worth having. But sometimes it’s helpful to step back from modern proposals about the care of the sick—typically involving legislation, bureaucracy, and costs—to think about […]
Features
When the Church condemned books: A short history of the Index
The final edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1940) is a drab little volume smaller than the average paperback. Bound in soft gray cardboard, its 510 flimsy pages—plus front matter and appendices—record the Church’s last […]
Books
Henri de Lubac: Pilgrim of Hope, Witness to Jesus Christ
I first read Henri de Lubac, SJ, as a college student in the late 1950s, when Vatican II was still but a twinkle in Angelo Roncalli’s eye. Among my first discoveries were The Drama of Atheist […]
Essay
Turning bad boys into saintly men: The work of Saint John Bosco
The tragedy of boys failing to grow into good men is not a modern phenomenon. While there are many reasons that young men today drift through life or engage in dangerous behaviors, this is not […]