Abortion and the new covert culture war
The two sides of the debate don’t inhabit the same universe
Catholicism
Monday
Tuesday
How the Covington kids gave us our latest lesson on the ills of public shaming
We’ve been doing this to each other for a while
The progressive war on Catholic private schools
First Georgetown Prep, now Covington. Who’s next?
Friday
The amazing grace of golden Dawn Goldstein
Who is the convert hunting conservative Catholics?
Wednesday
American Catholicism is going back to the future
A religious revolution is underway
Wednesday
The US-Rome feud shows no sign of abating
As conservatives, the US bishops’ instinct is to take the Pope’s slights on the chin. But in the last year, they’ve begun pushing back
Wednesday
Is Piers Morgan the only Catholic offended by the Met Gala?
It will come as no surprise that something in the news has Piers Morgan deeply troubled. For the past two days, Morgan has been incandescent over the Met Gala and its dress code. In a column for MailOnline he claims that, as a Catholic, he has become a victim of cultural appropriation due to fancy dress outfits worn to a party by celebrities. The Gala, a fixture of the New York social season at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is well known for the theme it sets, and this year it was ‘Heavenly Bodies’ – inspired by the Roman Catholic Church. The Gala was held to launch an exhibition of
Saturday
As a Catholic, I can’t really blame Paul Ryan for giving Fr Patrick Conroy the boot
Like all stereotypes, the “sneaky Jesuit” is truer than not. And as a practicing Catholic, I’m grateful to the Society of Jesus for its work refining the art of equivocation. It’s gotten me out of several difficult conversations with housemates without outright lying, such as: “Who drank the last of the Maker’s Mark?” Not me! (It … Read more
Thursday
Franco’s deathly legacy
Spanish restaurants in Germany are relatively rare, but not nearly as rare as biographies of General Franco. So when the Spanish-born waiter in Bonn’s Casa Pepe approached my table, it struck me as an opportune moment to solicit his opinion about the former dictator. ‘No sé mucho,’ he shrugged. ‘I don’t know a whole lot.’ Just imagine it: an unexceptional army cadet becomes a general in his mid- thirties, leads the Nationalists to victory in a bloody civil war, wields absolute power for close to three decades, and then, barely a generation later, his memory is reduced to an indifferent shrug. The contrast with Germany’s treatment of its totalitarian past
