Religion

The Mormons Go Mainstream!

America's Great Weird Religion hit Manhattan's Great White Way last Thursday night as South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone premiered their musical The Book of Mormon to ...

Viva Christianity!

Albert Einstein's damning-if-quirky verdict on Marie Curie's character was that she "€œhas the soul of a herring."€ I am reminded of his words every time I hear yet another ...

The Desert of the Real

A wealth of ideas rushed through my mind the other day as I was watching the production of Nineteen Eighty Four starring Richard Burton and John Hurt, which was released, by no ...

Truth & Charity

"€œPope calls for global government,"€ read the headlines in early July. Then, as night follows day, the Pope's conservative supporters lined up to eviscerate the media for ...

Is Obamania Over?

“The sound alone was worth the $24 billion!” So said fellow Nixon speechwriter Ray Price as the mighty Saturn V rocket lifted Apollo 11 and Armstrong, Aldrin and ...

How Modern Wolves Attack

In his homily at his inaugural Mass as Pope, Benedict XVI asked Catholics to “Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.”  The media firestorm over ...

God & Man at Takimag

Last week John Derbyshire posted on NRO a justification for his atheism, a comment that brought forth a thunderous response on this website from a devout Catholic John Zmirak. ...

John Derbyshire the Evangelist

I’d like to say “Thank God” for John Derbyshire, except that the crotchety old Brit has convinced me not to believe that he exists. God, I mean—not ...

From Richard to Rowan

The latest validation of James Burnham’s insight that “liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide” comes from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan ...

The Folk Mass is Ended… Go in Peace

Without my winter beard I’ve got a baby face, and am often mistaken for a 30-year-old. But teaching college students gives me frequent reminders that I really am ...

The “€œLies”€ of Pope Pius XII

One thing about paleocons—they’re not predictable. When I mentioned in a previous article the fact that Pius XII helped save Jews and Serbs from genocide through ...

Christ at the heart of Quebec

Quebec, la belle province, was once a land as Christ-haunted as Flannery O’Connor’s American South, with classical parish churches at the heart of towns and cities, ...

Brooks and the Fallacy of the Misplaced Concrete

Yesterday, in an already much remarked upon column, David Brooks reviewed the state of the kulturkampf  between "€œassertive atheists"€ and "€œdefenders of faith"€ ...

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