Analysis
How Politics Becomes Religion
The sheer ferocity of contemporary politics suggests that, for many people, it’s their real religion. […]
secularism
Books
“A Printer’s Choice” is a smart, suspenseful, and often daring sci-fi novel
W. L. Patenaude’s debut science-fiction novel features a richly imagined fictional world in which the Gospel of Christ goes to the farthest frontiers of space. […]
Features
Moral order, the current mess, and a theological reading of history
“As I explain in several essays in the book,” says George Weigel about The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times, “our politics are […]
The Dispatch
Lay Evangelization and the “smell of the sheep”
Is there anything new under the sun? Or is there anything even real? What if the Evangelists for the incarnate Son of God are actually […]
The Dispatch
An evening with William Lane Craig
Both Dr. Craig, who is Protestant, and I agreed heartily in our opposition to dumbed-down versions of Christianity and that authentic faith ought never to […]
The Dispatch
Our ugly progressive culture’s desperate need for authentic love and the Faith
By divorcing human intimacy from the context for which it was created our secular progressives have reduced it to simply pleasure, or what use to […]
The Dispatch
“Reflecting” on the future of the Church of England
Britain’s Secretary of State for Education, Miss Justine Greening, has told the Church of England it should “keep up” with modern attitudes and accept same-sex marriage. The Prime Minister, herself the daughter of an Anglican […]
Special Report
World Youth Day Krakow—one year later
One year ago, Pope Francis encouraged an estimated two million young pilgrims gathered outside Krakow, Poland from all corners of the world to “get off the couch” and begin their adult lives as brave, tenacious […]
Analysis
Poverty is not the root cause of abortion
As is often the case with secular refrains, there is an element of truth in it: the roots of (particular evil or problem) are structural; therefore strengthening or fixing the structure will solve the problem. […]
The Dispatch
The growing secular totalitarianism—and our Catholic response
A Republican congressman shot; a Republican Senator threatened with death if he doesn’t vote the left’s way on Obamacare; an elite software developer who spent almost a half-a-billion dollars promoting gay marriage calling for the […]