Essay
Focusing again on the Four Last Things
Our Christian goal ought to be nothing short of Heaven – not escaping Hell by the skin of our teeth, nor being resigned to “doing […]
Jesus Christ
Features
Is there really a definitive teaching of the Church on capital punishment?
A second response to Professor Edward Feser […]
The Dispatch
“What a piece of work is man”: A review of Roger Scruton’s “On Human Nature”
Scruton’s book makes evident that in order to think correctly about the person we need to think less like liberals, and more like Aristotleans. Or better […]
Features
Superstition, Dissent, and Scandal? A brief defense of Fr. Thomas Weinandy
Some pundits from both progressive and orthodox quarters have been quick to criticize and even condemn Fr. Weinandy and his missive to the Pope.Thus, a […]
Features
From Bukowski to Benedict
The cinema was once the light in which I sought purpose and escape. And then I was issued a challenge I could not escape: To […]
The Dispatch
G. K. Chesterton on Dan Brown: The Interview
“Good literature may tell us the mind of one man; but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men. A good novel tells […]
The Dispatch
“Mother!” and the God of the Bible
Though it rather clearly reflects the anti-Scriptural prejudice of the cultural elite today, mother! might actually serve to prompt a re-examination of the deeply ecological […]
Interview
“We cannot love what do not know”: An interview with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
“Catholic dogmas,” says the author of The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism, “are intellectual sign-posts: teachings that point us toward divine truth and that […]
The Dispatch
The Modern Malaise and the End of the World
The end of the world is more real than the world. The Creator is more real than the creation. The end of time is the […]
The Dispatch
On great exemplars of authentic manhood
False depictions of manhood as unconstrained self-will and manhood as dangerous or anachronistic are both closely connected to the belief that pleasure or happiness must […]