Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He is an art critic for National Review and writes a regular column for PJ Media at Roger’s […]
This morning’s news that Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone will be the next archbishop of San Francisco has already been described as the “San Francisco Earthquake of 2012” and the “Bombshell by the Bay” (colorful headline […]
By the way, Father Fessio, Tony Ryan, and I are at the Napa Institute for the balance of the week. Father Fessio is a participant in several breakout sessions. We’re also debutting the Augustine film, […]
The Holy Father named Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of Oakland to be the ninth Archbishop of San Francisco. A terrific appointment. More to follow as this surprise (to some) appointment–he moves across the Bay from Oakland […]
In recent years social critics like Robert Putnam (Bowling Alone) and Charles Murray (Coming Apart) have documented and deplored a decline of community among Americans. It’s a development that affects churches along with other institutions […]
Being called “crazy” by Michael Sean Winters is like being called a “heretic” by his employer, the National Catholic Reporter—if that particular publication ever admitted the existence of heresy. Such an accusation lacks gravitas and […]
As the bishops make clear in their statement on religious liberty “Our First, Most Cherished Liberty,” the HHS mandate declaring that Catholic institutions must provide contraception and abortifacients in their insurance coverage is only one […]
The former Prime Minister seems like a nice enough chap and all that, but he also has an irritating habit of wanting it both ways when it comes to being Catholic. Perhaps it comes […]
Nuance is often lacking in discussions about global environmental crises, which makes Roger Scruton’s Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet (Oxford University Press) a gift for those distraught by the doomsday scenarios […]
From the “Campus Notes” blog on the Cardinal Newman Society site: Catholic families have a right to know which theology professors have the mandatum, and Catholic colleges and universities should require it as a condition […]
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