December 14, 2014
John Paul II rightly warned against “positivist” interpretations of the Church’s doctrine on religious liberty. We must defend true Catholic concepts of civil liberty both against their bowdlerization by neo-conservatives who seek to replace it with Lockean liberalism, and against the illiberal hordes.
October 20, 2014
I was impressed by Louise Mensch’s courageous willingness to refuse the cheap grace offered by Cardinal Kasper, but also by her evident refusal to consider the cheap grace offered by conservative apologists.
July 22, 2014
Conservatism must rediscover a greater sense of what it is for and a sense of enjoyment for such things.
April 14, 2014
In this age of rapacious capitalism and of compulsory sexuality, there is potential for celibacy—and not just for clerics and religious—to make sense as political praxis more than at any time in Christian history since the reign of Constantine.
April 7, 2014
Christians are waking up to the fact that they have very little moral capital with which to speak out against the defenestration of Brendan Eich. If we want to know why this is the case, we might start by questioning our own collective acquiescence.
February 27, 2014
It may be a queer proposal (pun intended), but it is perhaps worth considering whether those genuinely interested in defending the historic teaching of the churches on Christian marriage and on the family do not currently have the wrong bedfellows.
February 17, 2014
Cafeteria Catholicism is a problem for both the Right and the Left, but critiques of this phenomenon must proceed with great caution, lest the side-effects of the medicine prescribed turn out worse than the symptoms of the disease.
January 10, 2014
Given the increasing realization that the modern liberal state is corrosive to the practices and virtues necessary for genuine political community, the question for Catholics is less, “Nietzsche or Aristotle?,” and more “General Franco or Dorothy Day?”
