“In every era, there have been persons who have dared this departure (from where they are) and to whom is revealed in a particularly clear manner the presence of God.” — Pope Benedict XVI, To […]
Brad S. Gregory The Unintended Reformation: How A Religious Revolution Secularized Society Belknap Press, 2012 592 pages, $39.95 Modern academic history, according to historian Daniel Lord Smail, suffers from “the inflationary spiral of research overproduction, […]
In a special letter dated May 15, 2012, Father Arnaud Rostand, the Superior of the United States District of the SSPX, commented on the recent leak of private correspondence between three bishops of the Society […]
This week the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. Maureen Dowd, meanwhile, is castigating the Church via her own little Feast of Condescension, filled with her usual sour soundbites and tasteless morsels. […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius addressed the graduates of Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute today. She said that public service is “the most challenging, frustrating, exciting, consequential, and rewarding career there is” and […]
Sean Collins, a self-described “New York progressive” explains why he is not evolving along with President Obama: The growing clamour in favour of gay marriage has led me to recognise that it is important to […]
An excerpt from Francis Cardinal George’s May 20th column in Catholic New World: Because public discussion of the Department of Health and Human Services’ interpretation of the requirements of the health care reform legislation will […]
I’m sure the philosopher Roger Scruton, one of my favorite living authors, would quickly say it is not his wisdom, but the wisdom gained from experience, religion, time, thought, observation, tradition, and theological insight, applied to […]
Despite the fact that nearly the entire plot of Blue Like Jazz is preoccupied with its main character’s loss and eventual recovery of his Christian faith, its director, Steve Taylor, insists that it is not […]
“Faith’s recognition of the essential unity of all knowledge provides a bulwark against the alienation and fragmentation which occurs when the use of reason is detached from the pursuit of truth and virtue; and in this sense, […]
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