Letters to the Editor: October 2025

No Longer Just Your Neighborhood Weirdos... Man’s Deliverer from Deadly Isolation... The First Firm Foundation... Volleys in the Liturgy Wars... and more

The News You May Have Missed: October 2025

Good Over Evil?... Artificial Ineptitude... All Aren’t Welcome... Too Cute to Consume?... Suckermaxxing... A Life Between the Covers... and more

On the Occasion of a Favorite Professor Turning the Pen on Himself

TO SIR, WITH LOVE

Joseph Martin

Kreeft’s new autobiography is like a preface to his bibliography that helps decode how habits of thought, prayer, and questioning shaped everything that followed.

The Second Vatican Council: What’s the Big Deal?

AN HISTORICAL OVERESTIMATION?

Eric Jackson

The Church was already in a state of turmoil in the years prior to Vatican II, even if much of the turbulence was not obvious at the time.

The Danger of Equating the Church with the Mass

SYNODALITY: TRADITIONALISM’S STRANGE BEDFELLOW

Victor Bruno

The Church is the mother of Christendom. She encompasses all modes of life, from economy to culture, from politics to family relations.

“In Him We Have Redemption Through His Blood”: How Does That Work?

COULD GOD HAVE REDEEMED MAN IN ANY OTHER WAY?

Robert H. Hassell

The God-Man's sacrifice restored the connection between man and God. From that moment, justice having been satisfied, God’s perfect mercy could shower down.

Mirror of Society

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

Satan’s war on God and man, on holiness and innocence, has intensified. Each one of us, whether we believe it or not, is conscripted in this spiritual battle.

The Moonies in Japan: Religious Cult or Political Inconvenience?

CULTURAL COUNTERPOINT

Jason M. Morgan

Underneath the "brainwash" rhetoric is a strong current of disdain among those in the media-government-academic complex for religion of any kind.

Teaching Men to Die to Teach Them to Live

GUEST COLUMN

Alexander Riley

Childhood mortality was significantly greater even just such a short time ago that we can go and see with our own eyes the evidence in our cemeteries.

A Life Spent in Service

Monica Migliorino Miller

Sr. Dede burst onto the national scene at the 2020 Republican convention when, dressed in full habit, she proclaimed, “I am not just pro-life, I am pro-eternal life.”