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Opinion

Letters

Various

Theological Anthropology Thank you for printing my friend Fr. Blake Johnson’s excellent piece on women’s ordination (“Mere…

The Fall of Pride

Matthew Schmitz

On June 2, 2024, protestors temporarily halted the Philly Pride Parade. They were not congregants of the…

Arabic, A Christian Language

Onsi A. Kamel

To whom does a language belong? One might think it the possession of all who speak it.…

Lonely Men of Faith

David Novak

Some Christians regard the thought of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik as so anti-Christian that Christians should take no…

Prayer in a Time of War

Ephraim Radner

I do not understand war. Even in the present time, for all my deeply felt moral and religious…

Building Back Better

Liel Leibovitz

Once upon a time, in a faraway place called Brooklyn, there lived a museum director named Anne…

Essays

Empire Under Siege

R. R. Reno

A storm is coming. Earlier this year, I wrote about the cultural and political disruptions sure to arise…

The Future of The Catholic Church

Various

Liberalism’s Fourth Turning

John M. Owen IV

Something is wrong with America. A generation after the Great Republic vanquished the Soviet Union and established…

Mozart’s God

Richard Bratby

In a glass case at Mozart’s birthplace in Salzburg is a small wax doll. Its eyes look…

Reviews

Feel Free

Stephen M. Barr

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will By Robert M. Sapolsky Penguin, 528 pages, $35 Many…

Immortal Diamond

Edmund Waldstein

Chastity: Reconciliation of the Sensesby erik vardenbloomsbury, 176 pages, $22 In March 2022, the Nordic Bishops’ Conference…

Re-Enchanting Ethics

James Orr

The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lecturesby oliver o’donovaneerdmans, 167 pages, $40.99 Twenty years ago, at the…

Angelic Seeing

Nathaniel Peters

Passions of the Soulby rowan williamsbloomsbury, 160 pages, $15 These reflections, gentle but piercing in their spiritual…

Judith Butler’s Sophistry

Abigail Favale

Who’s Afraid of Gender?by judith butlerfarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $30 Judith Butler’s status in the…

Briefly Noted

Matthew McKenna Jason Waskovich

Viri Dignitatem: Personhood, Masculinity and Fatherhood in the Thought of John Paul II by david h. delaneyemmaus…

Poetry

Incline Your Ear

Sarah Rossiter

Imagine the shell you findon the beach, a large conch,half-buried, glistening inmorning light, waiting to belifted, rinsed,…