Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Helping to Break the Cycle of Family Instability
Can people in bad, poor areas break out of the cycle of family instability that puts children…
A Witness, in Life and Letters
Born in Britain in 1923, and educated at Eton and Oxford, Philip Trower is a Catholic writer…
Torture and Witness to Life
I am a very proud alumnus of the Franciscan University of Steubenville. I earned a bachelor’s degree…
Gnosticism 2.0
Humans typically situate their divinities at the border of the cosmos. The Israelites and Babylonians understood the…
Best Books (Not) of 2014
Many excellent books were published in 2014, but I did not read any of them. (My friend…
The New College Counterculture
Hip. Suave. Chic.” These are not the words from a car commercial. They are what Princeton student…
The Last Man and the First Man
Scanning half a dozen major journals for obituaries devoted to the most important mystery writer of our…
My Year in Reading
Every December since my college days a few friends and I have started an email thread to…
Time to Challenge No-Fault Divorce
High in the catalogue of social pathologies afflicting marriage and the family in America stands our system…
Freedom From Food
If vegetarianism is the dietary equivalent of pacifism, then Soylent is a form of dietary celibacy. Soylent…
A Biblical Vision of Marriage
Too often, we Evangelical Protestants have harmed our public witness and failed in fidelity by proclaiming the…
Grateful Hearts
During the 1970s Paul Williams’s talents as a singer, songwriter, composer and actor were in high demand.…
Catholic Capitulation on Marriage
Fr. Timothy Lannon, President of Creighton University, my former employer, has announced that starting in 2015 the…
My Plea
The day my soul became Catholic was the day I found out that as a divorced and…
The Five Stages of Grieving the Art of Jeff Koons
It is Sunday night, and the Whitney Museum of American Art has been open for thirty-some hours…
