The Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, was this last weekend. This year, I felt its cleansing power palpably. My reacquaintance with the power of Yom Kippur came decades ago. I see it as part of the providential nature of this…
In our quest to unravel the universe’s most profound mysteries, few artifacts embody the intersection of science and faith as poignantly as the Shroud of Turin. This ancient cloth, believed by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ,…
As a journalist, it’s easy to turn around copy on any of the public policy and political debates of the day, but I struggle to write about religious issues in a meaningful way. My American Spectator columns detail the usual…
In a recent long-form interview between Dr. Jordan Peterson and Dr. J.D. Haltigan, the conversation turned towards the violence all over the world in the wake of Oct. 7. As the two psychologists were trying to understand this horrible, hateful…
The Sisters of Charity of New York announced last year that it will not accept any new members. The announcement was more of a formality than anything else, as no one has joined the order in more than twenty years….
If you love history, art, beauty, romance, and God, you will appreciate the rare times in your life when all five converge. One such instance occurred to me more than thirty years ago in a little church in Dijon, France….
The Shield of Achilles By W.H. Auden (Princeton University Press, 93 pages, $23) The republication of W.H. Auden’s poetry collection, The Shield of Achilles, reminds us that Auden belongs in the hall of great Christian writers, not with the Left. As…
I heard Bible stories at Sunday school. Especially at the early grades, with Mrs. Goldstein and Mrs. Berkowitz, both of whom were great storytellers. Nothing is more important than telling stories. Douglas clearly implies that opposition to religion is itself…
On June 17, the Thomistic Institute hosted Dr. Andrew Abela at the Catholic University of America (CUA) for a lecture on virtue. Abela is the founding dean of the Busch School of Business and an Ordinary Professor of Marketing at…
One of the largest cultural shifts in the last hundred years has occurred in the world of American religion. In the early 1970s, just one in twenty adults in the United States told survey administrators that they had no religious…
