Theology

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Orthodox Origen

Joseph T. Lienhard

Origen: On First Principlesedited and translated by john behroxford, 800 pages, $200 In its eleventh canon, the…

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

Michael Doran

The Virtue of Nationalismby yoram hazonybasic books, 304 pages, $18.99 In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks,…

T. S. Eliot, Populist

Robert C. Koons

What defines the essence of populism? What is it for, and what is it against? T. S.…

Heterodox Woman

Elizabeth Corey

The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Cultureby heather mac…

Letter to an Aspiring Doctor

Theodore Dalrymple

You tell me you are thinking, my dear Stephen, of medicine as a career, but you wonder…

Letters

Various

Death Penalty Sad to say, but as surely as night follows day, when Pope Francis speaks on…

Angels of Advent

Peter J. Leithart

Angels appear at critical moments in the Hebrew Bible. The angel of Yahweh helps Hagar as she…

Lord, You Know It All

Dan Hitchens

In the spring of 1908, an Irish priest was walking through the slums of Great Yarmouth in…

Cleansed and Conformed to God’s Will

George Weigel

Father, We Thank Thee, Who Hast Planted” has long been one of my favorite hymns. Its tune,…

Confessions of a Catholic Whistleblower

Siobhan M. O Connor

In late July, I began giving internal diocesan documents to an investigative reporter in my hometown of…

Vatican Autocracy and the U.S. Bishops

George Weigel

As the U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore on the weekend of November 10–11, it seemed certain that,…

Hour of the Wolf

Eve Tushnet

Earlier this year I edited an anthology, Christ’s Body, Christ’s Wounds: Staying Catholic When You’ve Been Hurt…

Superheroes and Saints

Alexi Sargeant

Face front, true believers. Last week the world lost one of the few household names among the…

Synodality Upended

C. C. Pecknold

Last Monday, as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops gathered for the 2018 General Assembly, the Holy…

The Vatican Intervention in Baltimore

Philip Lawler

By quashing the American Catholic bishops’ bid for an independent investigation into the burgeoning sex-abuse scandal, the…