Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
How Great Was He?
Philip and Alexander:Kings and Conquerorsby adrian goldsworthy basic, 608 pages, $35 An immensely successful father poses a…
Just Think What We’ll be Missing
Note: This column was written in December 2020. I leave it to readers to judge its pertinence…
T. S. Eliot and the Jews
There recur in the work of T. S. Eliot two obsessions that make one cringe: his Jew-hatred…
The Biblical Case Against IVF
Vulnerable human beings in the earliest stages of life are especially at risk these days. Increasingly, on…
The Dreamer as Architect
Last night in dreams, she lived a thousand yearsAnd was the architect who made a houseThat wandered…
The Shadow of Nothingness
Pandemic, lockdowns, shuttered churches, trillions spent, BLM protests turning violent, political rancor, hyper-partisan media, uproar after the…
The Spymaster
A Legacy of Spies by john le carré viking, 272 pages, $28 Last December, while most of…
Together, Separate
The bells ring out. We’re gathered roundoutside the church. Unhallowed groundis where we celebrate this year.We celebrate,…
The Equality Act’s Assault on Religious Liberty
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR5, the so-called “Equality Act,” to amend various provisions of…
Son of Solzhenitsyn
When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn left the Soviet Union in February 1974 as one of the most famous exiles…
Essentially Fertile: Notes Toward a Land Ethic
In the decades since World War II, the U.S. has declared a war on poverty, a war…
The Lenten Presumption
Over the next 40 days, we join our Lord on the via dolorosa, the road of suffering,…
The Rise of the Middle Ages
Autumntide of the Middle Agesby johan huizinga translated by diane webb edited by graeme small and anton…
Prohibiting Prayer in Australia
Conversion therapy—the use of psychological or spiritual interventions to attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation or…
Missionaries for Life
This essay is adapted from a homily delivered on January 23 at the Mass for the Walk…
