Christian” does point to a relationship between the old covenant and the new covenant, it fails to convey what that ...

Fr. Mario Portella is right that the postliberalism of Carl Schmitt is incompatible with Catholic teaching, but not every postliberal project is Schmittian. Some can be defended within the Catholic ...

Recently, Shane Gillis made headlines for saying on Saturday Night Live that women at the gym dress like whores. Naturally, this received a lot of backlash from women who go to the gym in minimal, ...

They have dispatched the monk to Rome. Said quickly, it sounds like a promotion. Said slowly, with the facts laid out in order, it sounds like what it is: the quiet destruction of a scholar’s life by ...

The National Catholic Register carried a story September 3 about Anglican cathedrals in the United Kingdom increasingly renting out their spaces for pop concerts and discos. Many justify the practice ...

Getting married and forming a family is a great victory these days, especially in what economist Nicholas Eberstadt calls the “global flight from family.” Among the starkest statistics is that a ...

It is almost 30 years since my book Literary Converts was published by Harper Collins in the United Kingdom and subsequently by Ignatius Press in the United States. It was praised by A.N. Wilson as ...

For a few years in the 1980s, when I was a graduate student at UCLA and had no stipend, I lived in a tenement near the La Brea Tar Pits and paid $105 a month for a studio apartment. It had no kitchen, ...

After weeks of intense debate, Lindsay Clancy’s case was declared a mistrial. Due to one brave juror who refused to acquit a woman who murdered her three young children in cold blood, a unanimous ...

Around 2020 I started writing satirical Catholic news. At first, it was just a personal writing exercise, a light project to sharpen my skills and maybe help cope with the craziness of that time. But ...

Our Catholic moral tradition has always recognized a hierarchy of moral gravity. Not all wrongs are the same. We know this instinctively. Some are the result of human weakness and flawed speech; ...