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 […]
secularism
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“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 […]
Ecclesia et Civitas
Does American exceptionalism still have something to offer the world?
People say the United States is different from other countries, but how, and what does it mean? A basic distinction is that it is a comparatively new country governed by the oldest secular revolutionary government […]
The Dispatch
Catholic Lite and Europe’s demographic suicide
Ten years ago, after my meditation on Europe, The Cube and the Cathedral, had appeared in several languages, I was invited to speak to members of the European Parliament in Brussels. There, I pointed out what […]
Books
Christian Politics Is the Benedict Option Now
Editor’s note: This is the second of a series of reviews and essays—positive, critical, and mixed—of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option (Sentinel, 2017). Read the first essay here. With the publication of La Primauté du spirituel, […]