Letters to the Editor: June 2026

Too Much of a Good Thing?... Do They Know Their Scripture?... Bypassing Empty Slogans... Time Out of Mind... Staying in Touch... and more

The News You May Have Missed: June 2026

Between a Rock & a Hard Place... Zucked Up... Artificial Flamers... Cooking the Books... Witty Warriors... Road-Trip Relief... and more

Why Some Priests Leave & Why Many Stay

NO, THE PRIESTHOOD IS NOT “COLLAPSING”

Ken Treece

The overwhelming majority of priests remain in ministry, and many report a profound sense of purpose in their vocation.

Quantum Mechanics, Transubstantiation & Why Aristotle Was Right After All

DISTINGUISHING SUBSTANCES & THEIR ACCIDENTS

Robert Kurland

It’s time to admit that the philosophical tools commonly used to understand quantum mechanics — and reality itself — do not work.

The Pitfalls of Charm

VITALS WORKS RECONSIDERED, #59

Edmund B. Miller

In almost all cases, isolation accompanies the Flytes’ charm. This being so, it’s no surprise Brideshead Revisited is not a happy book.

Does the Church Have a Stained-Glass Ceiling?

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

The handful of attempts at women’s ordinations in the early 2000s were met generally with yawns by lay observers and with warnings by prelates.

Motive of Credibility: Holiness

REVERT'S ROSTRUM

Casey Chalk

Because the Church is the Body of Christ, the sins of the faithful are a deviation from her Christ-originating holiness. They obscure but cannot eliminate her holiness.

Catholic Citizens & the Temptation of Hypernationalism

COVENANT & CIVILIZATION

Marcus Peter

Christianity converts hearts, disciplines desires, builds families, teaches sacrifice, and forms consciences, and then public life gradually changes because men have changed.

More Dispatches from the Spiritual Battlefront

Christopher Beiting

Priests get involved in deliverance ministry to help the suffering. All the problems exorcists endure they consider “a small price to pay for another person’s liberation.”

A Window into the Madness

Inez Fitzgerald Storck

Lenin’s tactical skill and the inability of his opponents to organize effectively against him led to his triumph. An extremist leader of a radical party, he created the USSR.

Briefly Reviewed: June 2026

Here we review A Shower of Roses: The Most Beautiful Miracles of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, by Camille Burette.