Jonathan Culbreath
On March 31, The Atlantic published an important essay by Adrian
Vermeule, a Catholic professor of constitutional law at Harvard
University, entitled “Beyond Originalism,” igniting a firestorm of
controversy within the internet world of legal and political theory.
That a secular magazine like The Atlantic would publish an article of
such unflinchingly Catholic convictions is […]
Kelly Salomon
One of the distinguishing factors of a faithful Catholic college is its
vibrant community life. Students spend four years immersed in a truly
Catholic culture, where faith and virtue are promoted and students,
faculty and staff make friendships to last a lifetime. Now faithful
Catholic colleges have closed their campuses to curb the spread of […]
Casey Chalk
The coronavirus crisis has certainly put a lot of things into
perspective —and not just the value of relationships with our family or
how much money we really need to get by. What counts as essential
medical service has also become a topic of national conversation. This
is most salient in regard to abortion, though […]
Austin Ruse
Last week, President Donald Trump wished the country “Happy Good
Friday,” and all hell broke loose. Suddenly, everyone was an expert on
Catholic theology—or, at least, the emotional rubrics going along with
Holy Week. Sure, most religious folk would not use the phrase “Happy
Good Friday.” But most religious folk understood what he was trying […]
Fr. Matthew Solomon
Anyone with faith in God could easily conclude that the current crisis
has all the hallmarks of divine punishment, especially here in Australia
given the recent drought, fires, smoke, floods, and now plague. It is
beginning to sound all a bit biblical, like the book of Exodus,
especially having just been through Lent. If we […]
Joshua Hren
Death, decries the novelist Alan Harrington, is “an imposition on the
human race” from which we will be saved by “medical engineering and
nothing else.” Though the dark hearse of death drives fear of that
moment when “everything will go black . . . our messiahs will be wearing
white coats.” In Pale Horse, Pale […]
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