Essay
At the altar, yet far from the Lord
How can priests who are not only intimately united to the Eucharistic Lord but who also receive the graces of the Eucharist each day betray […]
St. Thomas Aquinas
Essay
Natural No Maas: The disintegration of the concept of all law in Luther
Classical Protestantism is a voluntarist form of Christianity, such a radically different view of human and divine will that it must be differentiated from non-voluntarist […]
Books
Marengo’s Lament: ‘The Birth of an Encyclical’ unwittingly confirms old truths
Pope Paul VI had no doubts about the truth of the doctrinal teaching he set forth in Humanae Vitae, but that he knew given the […]
The Dispatch
Understanding culture in the light of Divine Revelation
Culture does not come to exist out of necessity, rather, culture can be seen as an analog to creation: it comes to exist out of […]
The Dispatch
St. Thomas Aquinas, Vatican II, and the “Benedict Option”
We should all adopt some sort of interior ‘Benedict Option’, to ensure our souls are not conformed to this age, to keep our thoughts and […]
Essay
Joyce Kilmer, John Paul II, and the artistic vocation
All who reverence the Bible, but especially Christians, ought to have a deep appreciation for words and for those who take words and give them […]
The Dispatch
The Death of Embryos and “The Conception Problem”
To embrace an embryo, we must conceive what has been conceived. […]
Books
Dominican theologian: The goal of the priesthood is to get people to heaven
Father Romanus Cessario, O.P., reminds readers of the eternal focus of the priest, takes aim at the buzzword “discernment,” and shows why every attack on the […]
The Dispatch
Nature is God’s prose, miracles are His poetry
Belief is serious business, and God wants no one to be duped for He is, as the traditional act of faith, declares, the One Who […]
Features
Fr. Thomas Reese’s quixotic, irrational battle with Greek philosophy
The former editor of America magazine would do well to read Benedict XVI’s 2005 “Regensburg Address” and Vatican II’s documents on seminary training and Catholic […]