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Newman on the Sacred Liturgy, Part Two

November 17, 2025 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 2

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, […]

Columns

On the surprising sanity of Bill Gates on climate change…

November 16, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 73

I didn’t see this coming. I could hardly believe the news article that came across my desk the other day: none other than Bill Gates was urging climate advocates to rethink their priorities and rhetoric […]

Analysis

Casual Sex, No Casual Dating, No Courtship

November 15, 2025 Dr. Randall B. Smith 39

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 […]

Essay

On Nick Fuentes and the rise of the woke right

November 14, 2025 Marcus Peter 181

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 […]

Columns

Catholicism and the American Founding: A further response to “The Great American Story”

November 13, 2025 Dr. Christopher Shannon 11

“No taxation without representation!” Every American school boy and girl learns this as the rallying cry that inaugurated the sequence of events that led to the birth of the United States of America. In this […]

Essay

On the Taliban and the dehumanizing “regulations” of radical Islam

November 11, 2025 Luma Simms 60

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 […]

Essay

Newman on the Sacred Liturgy, Part One

November 10, 2025 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 6

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 […]

Essay

The life of the Trinity in Saint Elizabeth Catez

November 9, 2025 Dawn Beutner 11

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 […]

Analysis

The Emergence of the Post-Liberal Catholic Priest

November 7, 2025 Kenneth Craycraft 52

A major recent survey suggests that a new generation of Catholic priests is breaking free of the restrictive political labels of “conservative” and “liberal,” recognizing that the claims of our Faith transcend such increasingly anachronistic branding. […]

Columns

Catholicism and the problem of political extremism

November 6, 2025 James Kalb 85

Modern politics go to extremes. There are a variety of reasons for that. One is that modern thought likes to draw far-reaching conclusions from a few simple principles. In the natural sciences, where exact verification […]

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