Letters to the Editor: May 2025

“Seeing” the Unseen... Christianity & Confucianism... A Subtle Error... A Special Providence... more

The News You May Have Missed: May 2025

Mujeres on the March... The Wrong Offspring... No More Blank Faces... Rude & Ruder... Marriage by Mandate... Built to Last... and more

Defending Dives, Defunding Lazarus

THE 'ORDO AMORIS': TWO PERSPECTIVES

John C. Médaille

J.D. Vance invoked St. Augustine and the 'ordo amoris' while discussing immigration issues, drawing great commentary from all sides and even a papal rebuke.

The Right Ordering of Love in the Political Sphere

JOHN GRONDELSKI REPLIES

John M. Grondelski

When we move from the spiritual good of love to its material, concrete incarnation, we move into the realm of material goods that diminish by division.

The Hedonistic Death Drive of “Queerness”

ON CONSERVATIVES’ EMBRACE OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Alexander Riley

'Queerness' is more than a broad aegis under which to group everything that is not heterosexual. There is a spirit that animates the LGBTQ worldview.

In the Footsteps of the Snowshoe Priest

THE SLOVENIAN BISHOP’S SOCK

Thomas Basil

The future St. John Neumann credited Frederic Baraga’s example for his vocation, as did a stream of Slovenian priests who followed him to America.

A Dicastery of Papal Efficiency? Make It So!

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

Bergoglio was elected as a “reformer pope” with a commission from the College of Cardinals to clean up Vatican finances, which were something of a mess.

We Are the Show People

CULTURAL COUNTERPOINT

Jason M. Morgan

New fame, mass-produced fame, especially Internet fame, is an onslaught against the senses, part of a war on the order of the soul, the body, and the mind.

'Prohibited Extremist Activity'

GUEST COLUMN

“Employee”

"Discrimination" based on "gender identity or sexual orientation” can include following the teachings of the Church on matters of gender theory and marriage.

Glossolalia & the Long Middle Ages

Christopher Beiting

Speaking in tongues is a public act of communication in a foreign language, not a private act of devotion in a personal language.

Briefly Reviewed: May 2025

Sola Scriptura Doesn’t Work: 25 Practical Reasons to Reject the Doctrine of ‘Bible Alone'... Your Life Is a Story: G.K. Chesterton and the Paradox of Freedom

Frederick W. Marks, R.I.P.

This January we lost a beloved contributing editor; he was a biblical scholar par excellence and the author of several books of apologetics.