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 The Extinction of Christians in the Middle East
by Giulio Meotti • HOW SAINT JOHN PAUL II BENT THE 20TH CENTURY & WHY HARVARD'S MARY GLENDON MATTERS FOR FOREIGN POLICY8/9/2019  Extraordinary coincidence, contemporary lesson By George Weigel on Aug 07, 2019 03:02 am Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more humane direction during his first pilgrimage to his Polish homeland in June 1979, new information continues to emerge [...] Read in browser » Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation at 50 By Dr. Samuel Gregg on Aug 06, 2019 03:00 pm “What is civilization? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms—yet. But I think I can recognize it when I see it; and I am looking at it now.” These were among the [...] Read in browser » Horns of a Dilemma: An Interview with Robert Jervis – Reflections on Political Science, Politics, and Policy by Robert Jervis and Francis J. Gavin The Inspired Mary Ann Glendon and Her Dismal Critics by Greg Weiner Mary Ann Glendon is an inspired choice to lead Pompeo’s Commission on Unalienable Rights and the apoplexy of her critics proves it. Read More » Why American Democracy Is Worth Defending By Alexander Salter on Aug 18, 2019 10:00 pm What is American democracy, and why is it worth defending? The current political climate, in which democracy is increasingly (and troublingly) equated with populism, compels us to reflect on this question. Democracy is an ancient form of government, but historically, democracies that rise above mere mob rule and reflect genuine self-governance, while respecting basic ... Read in browser » God Wants a Repentant Church, Not a Relevant Church
Jonathan B. Coe On a regular basis the faithful Catholic laity find themselves disconcerted and even outraged when priests and prelates display an inverted moral calculus. For example, as William Kilpatrick writes in a recent essay in this magazine, the Vatican has become a kind of sanctuary city for credibly accused homosexual predators while Pope Francis laments the […]  EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCE, CONTEMPORARY LESSON By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel Syndicated Column Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more humane direction during his first pilgrimage to his Polish homeland in June 1979, new information continues to emerge about what happened behind the scenes, shedding further light on those epic events. Read More (See also Mr. Weigel’s interview with Catholic Digest about his latest book and how average Christians can cope with the changes of postmodernity — and perhaps even make a contribution to restoring order in society.) Religious liberty and freedom of conscience exist in the West because Christians developed them from the truths they held. Read More » Why Is There Systematic Anti-Christian Persecution in Egypt? by Mohammed Bani Salameh and Ayman Hayajneh Middle East Quarterly Summer 2019 (view PDF) https://www.meforum.org/58683/end-syrian-civil-war-jordan Systematic Discrimination: Christians Under Egyptian Rule by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPage Magazine July 30, 2019 https://www.meforum.org/59051/systematic-discrimination-christians-in-egypt THE VIRTUES OF REFORM By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White The Catholic Thing Genuine renewal in the Church requires both paths to reform: structural and administrative changes, as well as ongoing conversion and growth in holiness. Read More The Vandals sack Rome….again By George Weigel on Jul 29, 2019 05:50 pm An exercise in raw intellectual vandalism has been underway in Rome since July 23: what was originally known as the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family has been peremptorily but systematically [...] Read in browser » JPII Institute VP says school’s identity is ‘seriously threatened’ By Catholic News Agency on Aug 01, 2019 11:39 am Vatican City, Jul 31, 2019 / 09:25 pm (CNA).- The vice-president of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Rome said that changes to the school’s governing structure and academic program are a serious threat [...] Read in browser » JPII Institute purge a case of Vatican types refusing to be honest, transparent By Christopher R. Altieri on Aug 13, 2019 10:05 pm It is fair to say the suppression-and-reconstitution of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, as the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences has received [...] Read in browser » The West Must Return to the Faith – or Perish Paul Krause Western civilization is weak, exhausted, dying. Our leaders in the Church – servants in attendance to the Great Physician – can now think of nothing to do but preach this thing they call “mercy.” There is nothing wrong with mercy, of course; but when our clerics use the word, they sound more like hospice nurses […]Read More “Reason, Faith, & the Struggle for Western Civilization”: Illuminating the Past & Present
By Carl Olson on Aug 07, 2019 10:00 pm  Burke and the nation Yuval Levin | Law & Liberty In Edmund Burke’s view of the world, the nation occupies a primary place. Burke’s thinking points toward the nation in four distinct ways, which can all help us think about what nationalism actually means in our own time. The first has to do with love of country and its place in politics; the second is about national character; the third is about the nation as the unit of analysis in world affairs; and the fourth is about the nation as the unit of analysis in domestic affairs. Top Ten Conservative Books, 1924-1954 By Bradley J. Birzer on Jul 22, 2019 10:00 pm One of the single most important reasons the conservative movement became a movement is because it had writers of the highest caliber. They presented their ideas so convincingly and so pleasingly that even their most ardent critics had to take notice. Given my association with The Imaginative Conservative as well as with Hillsdale College, ... Read in browser » Normative Foundations of Originalism by Michael O' Shea Libertarian originalism tends to undermine conservative legal positions. Read More » Publius on the Relation of the Federal Government to the States
By Will Morrisey on Aug 08, 2019 10:00 pm James Madison wrote in “The Federalist” that the Constitution puts the states to the test: The stronger federal government will inaugurate a kind of competition in good government, breaking the states’ monopolies… Having founded republican regimes in America, regimes animated by respect for the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God as enunciated in ... Read in browser »  The Spoon Elevation in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Emily Linz The titular character of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, wrongfully convicted as a spy and sentenced to ten years in a 1950’s Soviet forced-labor camp, trudges through his daily life with a strange companion: “[Ivan Denisovich] Shukhov pulled his spoon out of his boot. His little baby. It had been […] The Saving Nature of a Liberal Education Ashley G. Miller Reading good books can help save your soul. A liberal education and Christianity share a mutual pursuit of the truth. With the torrential influx of electronic entertainment and the focus on STEM-based disciplines, people today are reading books less than ever before. This is one of the great crises of our time. The National Endowment […] Defoe’s Critique of Monarchy: The Politics of Robinson Crusoe
by David Womersley The famous story of a man on a desert island dramatizes where political authority comes from, and how it can evolve away from despotism. Read More »  The practical “do’s” and “don’ts” of vocation discernment By Paul Senz on Jul 15, 2019 08:13 pm Jesus Christ calls all of us to be his disciples. But how are we each called to live out that discipleship? What will discipleship look like for each of us? How can we surrender ourselves [...] Read in browser » One, Holy, Catholic, and Neuter Fr. Tim McCauley The Church today suffers from a deficiency in her identity, lacking awareness of both her Marian and Petrine dimensions. I borrow these concepts from Hans Urs von Balthasar to explore the feminine and masculine aspects of the Church. In some ways we have become a neuter Church, lacking both Mary’s feminine receptivity toward Christ and […] Heaven, Hell, C.S. Lewis, and Hans Urs von Balthasar By CWR Staff on Jul 12, 2019 12:50 am This partial transcript is from the FORMED Book Club discussion of Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know by Michael Barber, July 8, 2019. Participants were Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., founder and editor of Ignatius Press; [...] Read in browser » NOW IN BRITAIN, AS THEN IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, THE TRUE INTELLECTUAL IS A DISSIDENT By EPPC Senior Fellow Sir Roger Scruton The Daily Mail (UK) The witch-hunting hysteria of Communist Prague has returned with a vengeance, not in Eastern Europe but in Britain, where open inquiry and the presumption of innocence have been, until this moment, the foundation of moral order and the guarantee of civil peace. Read More THEODORE DALRYMPLE Rushing to Judgment Two recent incidents reveal the craven impulses of the British elite. All Is Not Lost: Reason, Faith, & Western Civilization
by Dwight LongeneckerSamuel Gregg's Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization is a brilliant meditation on the reasons for the rise of the West, more triumphantly known as "Christendom." This foundation of faith was undermined by the development of anti-Christian rationalism and the Enlightenment, culminating in the materialistic new religions of destruction. Dr. Gregg argues that for the West to survive, we must return to valuing its Christian foundation. But does history indicate that going back is really the way forward? [MORE]  John Henry Newman’s long war on liberalism By Dr. Samuel Gregg on Jul 02, 2019 09:22 am Blessed John Henry Newman’s devastating critique of liberal religion remains even more relevant in our own time. [...] Read in browser » Jesus Was Not a Palestinian by Seth Frantzman The Jerusalem Post July 8, 2019 https://www.meforum.org/58900/jesus-was-not-a-palestinian Can Catholics be Minimalists? Dusty Gates In his brilliant Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman writes eloquently of the power of the Catholic Church to assimilate non-Christian, and even heretical, beliefs into her own Tradition. He writes about the Church as being able to stand firm among various philosophies, dogmas, and cultures as one who […] The Intellectual Revolution That Made the Modern World By Daniel McCarthy on Jul 19, 2019 10:00 pm The Enlightenment may well be the end of an old story rather than the beginning of a new one. The philosophy of insatiable appetites changed the Christian-Aristotelian moral order into the modern world, but now that the change is just about complete, what purpose does its catalyst serve? Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites ... Read in browser » Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 1 By Joseph G. Trabbic on Jul 31, 2019 01:32 pm The Catholic debate about the value of political and economic liberalism ebbs and flows. In the past few years in the U.S. it has become particularly public and intense (see here, here, here, here, here, [...] Read in browser » Newman and the problems of Catholic intellectual history By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille on Jul 29, 2019 01:03 am
Last fall I cheered the impending news of John Henry Newman’s canonization, for which we now have a date: October 13 of this year. October happens to be the month in which, after many years [...] Read in browser »  Catholicism and the American Founding
By Bradley J. Birzer on Jul 03, 2019 09:31 pm Natural Law, common law, Natural Rights, and localism—all so dear to the Founding—existed in 1776, simply put, because of the Catholic Church. [...] Read in browser »  Why Did Harry Jaffa Change His Mind? by David Tucker To preserve both the country and political philosophy, Jaffa returned to the beginning. Read More » World War I: War as Revolution
by Mark Malvasi When World War I ended in disillusionment, with much of Europe in chaos and ruin, many Progressives blamed Woodrow Wilson. It was he, in the end, who betrayed the cause of democracy. Only after the war did John Dewey and other Progressives admit that the Allies had never championed democratic values at all, but had gone to war from selfish motives of national aggrandizement... [MORE]  The Early Church & the Origins of Religious Liberty
By Casey Chalk on Jun 28, 2019 10:00 pm From Tertullian, a North African Christian writer of the early third century, to the Reformation, there is a significant Christian tradition that affirms religious freedom. Tertullian The origin story of religious liberty commonly cited in college courses and museums, informed by proponents of the so-called Whig view of history, goes something like ... Read in browser »  “Death in Venice”: The Problem of Romantic Reaction
By Eva Brann on Jun 24, 2019 10:00 pm We live in a state of decadence, of falling away, the more so for no longer naming it as such, and Mann’s way of laying the past to rest seems to me vastly better than the hatred of it accompanied by ignorance which characterizes the brutal branch of the phenomenon of decadence… For the ... Read in browser »  Africa: Alarming Rise of Christian Persecution by Uzay Bulut • Christians in Africa: "You have three days to go or you will be killed!"
by Giulio Meotti •  Has Science Run Its Course?
Regis Nicoll One year after scientists flipped the switch on Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicist Lawrence Krauss fretted, “I worry whether we’ve come to the limits of empirical science.” His worry was not unfounded—for in the last eleven years at the cost of over $13B, the sole accomplishment of the LHC has been the confirmation of the […]  The Liberal Religion Chilton Williamson, Jr. Some time ago I argued in a magazine column that liberalism has developed in recent decades from a rigidly secular political philosophy into a this-worldly religion with its own more or less developed though unsystematic dogma based on faith and a reciprocal concept of heresy, its own unwritten creed and sacramental system, a loose rhetorical […] Why Liberalism’s Pantheon Failed
By John Horvat on Jun 23, 2019 10:00 pm For most of our history, the American liberal consensus held that the nation’s God was Christian. However, modernists undermined this consensus by welcoming in secular idols through the back door. They turned the temple into a pantheon. A great debate is raging among conservatives about the future of the movement. At stake is the ... Read in browser »  Antigone and Me By Christine Norvell on Jun 19, 2019 10:00 pm Antigone was verbally attacked by Creon for her choice, for her womanhood, and for her independent actions. Being able to withstand a barrage of abuse made Antigone’s resilience clear. My life is in no way a parallel of Antigone’s, yet thousands of years later, the virtues that rise within us by God’s grace and ... Read in browser » Egypt’s Al-Azhar retreats from fatwa on beating women
Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayeb ruled that women cannot leave the house without their husbands’ permission and may be beaten as long as no bones are broken, sparking an uproar in Egypt.  Why Satanism Is Now on the Center Stage in the Culture WarJohn Horvat II
The religious right has often been looked down upon by many Americans involved in the political scene. For them, it shouldn’t exist. According to the secular liberal tradition, the public square is supposed to be value-neutral. Any religious intrusion into political matters is to be discouraged. The secular left is especially fearful of mixing politics […]  A Proposal for Episcopal Reform Jason Surmiller In many ways, the following is an attempt to respond to Pope Francis’s invitation to help reform the Church. Specifically, this short missive intends to shed light on a couple of the problems affecting the episcopacy and how we as the faithful can support our bishops’ ministry. I believe there is a strong case to […] Analysis: One year after McCarrick, what’s next for the Church? By Catholic News Agency on Jun 19, 2019 07:01 pm Washington D.C., Jun 19, 2019 / 04:20 pm (CNA).- Exactly one year after revelations about the sexual abuse of then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick were made public, the Church in the U.S. remains in a state of [...] Read in browser » Whose republic? Which “liberalism”? By George Weigel on Jun 19, 2019 12:38 pm Extra credit question: Name the author of this admonition about the insecure cultural foundations and potentially perilous future of the American republic — “Seeds of dissolution were already present in the ancient heritage as it reached [...] Read in browser » A sorely needed theological justification of the truth of the Catholic faith By Eduardo Echeverria on Jun 19, 2019 12:13 am Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s book The Power of Truth: The Challenges to Catholic Doctrine and Morals Today consists of several essays on a variety of teachings that are currently in the limelight of the Church’s crisis—doctrinal, [...] Read in browser » Called out of the priesthood?
By Fr. Charles Fox on Jun 17, 2019 07:22 pm Father Jonathan Morris, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York and former member of the Legionaries of Christ, recently has attracted a great deal of attention by publicly announcing his decision to petition for [...] Read in browser »  What the Trinity Reveals About God and Us Regis Nicoll I once heard someone say that the most popular time for pastors to leave town is Trinity Sunday. How true that is, I don’t know. What I do know, is that during fifty plus years in the pews I have never heard a comprehensive sermon on the subject. I suspect my experience is not unique. […] Jihad against the Crucifix by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media June 6, 2019 https://www.meforum.org/58701/the-jihad-on-the-christian-cross  The Un-Burkean Economic Policy of Edmund Burke
By Ralph Ancil on Jun 16, 2019 10:00 pm Edmund Burke allowed his fear of the French Revolution to cloud his judgment of a fitting response to the needs of agricultural workers. He was blind to the dangers of monopoly and concentration of economic power, to the possible ways of intervening that conform to the character of a market economy. “The mistakes which ... Read in browser »  Sauron Comes to Middle England William Kilpatrick Tolkien, the new biopic about the master storyteller’s life, has come under criticism for giving the impression that Tolkien’s service in World War I was the decisive influence on his work. In fact, Tolkien was far more influenced by other factors—in particular by his love of mythology, and by his strong Catholic faith. Before her […] Art and the New Evangelization: How Beauty Will Save the World by Christopher West I’m sure each and every one of us can point to an experience in which we experienced a beauty that pierced us. Beauty has the ability to pierce the heart like nothing else, and if we are going to evangelize the modern world, we will need encounters with real beauty to do it. Evangelization, if it is true evangelization, is always an appeal to eros, because eros is the desire of the human heart for God—for Truth, for Goodness, for Beauty. It passes by way of finite things, but launches us to infinite things... [MORE] What Is Beauty and Why Do We Need It?
By John-Mark Miravalle on Jun 11, 2019 10:00 pm Beauty demands that we celebrate order with creativity, surprise, and freshness. We are meant to be startled by the goodness of reality, astonished by things working the way they’re supposed to, and delighted by the truth. Let us suppose there is such a thing as objective beauty. Suppose, along with the classical and Christian traditions, ... Read in browser »  Beware the Pitfalls of Curial Reform Msgr. Hans Feichtinger A structural reform of the Roman Curia has been one of the goals of Pope Francis and a reason why he was elected pope. Even some in the Curia support the idea. The last two major reforms were made by Popes Paul VI and John Paul II, yet many think what they did no longer […] Correspondence confirms Benedict XVI placed restrictions on McCarrick in 2008
By CWR Staff on May 28, 2019 04:55 pm A priest who was ordained by then-archbishop Theodore McCarrick and who worked with the defrocked prelate for decades has published a report detailing correspondence that confirms that Pope Benedict XVI had placed restrictions on McCarrick’s [...] Read in browser » |
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