Letters to the Editor: June 2025

The Rarest Kind of Best in Anything... The Difficulty of Creating Good Definitions... A Place Where Something Exciting Always Happens... A Ray of Sunshine... more

The News You May Have Missed: June 2025

A Catholic Coup... A Sign from Heaven... Run, Robot, Run... Tiny Contraband... Jackhammer Beak... Love of Neighbor, Love of Books... The Good Missus... and more

Who Murdered Christendom?

… AND REPLACED IT WITH “THE WEST”?

Victor Bruno

“The Western World,” Wilhelmsen writes, is “the shrunken husk of what was once Christendom, wracked from within by doubts and betrayals.”

Prisoner of Love

AN INTERVIEW WITH A PARDONED PRO-LIFER

Bernadette Patel

Other inmates were shocked that pro-life rescuers got two to five years in prison for doing a sit-in, handing out brochures, livestreaming a sit-in, or planning a sit-in.

The Stage as a Moral Force

A BUTTRESS TO LAW & RELIGION

D.D. Desjardins

Beyond portrayal as a means more powerful than words, and beyond the encouragement of virtue and the discouragement of vice, the stage offers practical wisdom.

The Strange Death of Australian Catholicism

THE DIFFERENCE TWO DECADES MAKE

Robert James Stove

Belloc observed that the Church could not be a purely human institution, as “no purely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility could last a fortnight.”

From the Narthex

In this special section, which runs as an occasional feature, we present samples of the offerings in the Narthex, the NOR’s online blog.

Farewell, Francis. Hello, Leo XIV

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

Perhaps we'll get concern for the poor, advocacy for peace, and a reaching out to believers on the margins along with a restoration of jettisoned elements of Catholic tradition.

Did William McKinley Die a Catholic?

GUEST COLUMN

James K. Hanna

In his final days the president requested the ministrations of Fr. Edward Vattmann, and upon his death he was buried with a final blessing by the priest.

Briefly Reviewed: June 2025

Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite... An Almost Insurmountable Evil: How Obama’s Deep State De­filed the Catholic Church and Executed the Wuhan Plandemic