Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Good Catholics, Good Citizens
The Catholic love affair with the United States of America is heading into rough and uncharted waters—and…
The Scholar and the Nymph
As he stood alone in the immense library of his college a week after Michaelmas term, mourning…
Inhuman Baseball
Unfortunately, the scene is now familiar to us. The runner on first breaks for second as the…
Amoris Laetitia from Where I Stand
Philip Larkin lamented that whether or not anybody refills your drink at a party “seems to turn…
Modern Weddings Have Lost Interest in the Marriage Bed
I became engaged at Easter, and, as I’ve started planning our wedding with my fiancé, I’ve noticed…
Why Amoris Laetitia Wouldn’t Have Helped Me
Like waves breaking on rock, polishing and shaping by force, the Catholic faith sands and sculpts my…
On Sex Without Deliberate Consent
In his recent Apostolic Exhortation, the Holy Father puts a question mark in the margin of the…
The Merciful Grace of the Truth
At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults,…
Francis Delivers
In the days leading up to Francis’s recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laeititia, one would have thought that…
A Stubborn Givenness
The Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, Amoris Laetitia, brings into the open a disturbing trend in this…
The Dream-Child’s Progress
“He’s dreaming now,” said Tweedledee: “and what do you think he’s dreaming about?” Alice said, “Nobody can…
Trigger Warnings and Academic Consumerism
I have been reading a lot of back-and-forth about “trigger warnings” lately. Students who see themselves as…
Letters
Catholicisms A demographic question for Ross Douthat regarding his “A Crisis of Conservative Catholicism” (January): If liberal…
The Loving Intellect
What does it mean to be an intellectual? The word comes from the Latin word for understanding,…
The Breath of Mercy
A mother shouldn’t have favorites, but I have often observed that she inclines more to the child…
