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June 7, 2019|Catholic Church, Emmanuel Macron, Notre Dame

Notre Dame and the French Elite

by Titus Techera|

Firefighters inspect the structure of Notre Dame de Paris on April 16, 2019 (Frederic Legrand - COMEO / Shutterstock.com).
The French need something more than policy speeches—they need to face their catastrophe with faith and thus rediscover powers that have long languished.

January 9, 2019|Catholic Church, empire, Jean Calvin, Martin Luther, Protestantism, universalism, Yoram Hazony

Protestant Nationalism and Catholic Empire? A Comment on Yoram Hazony

by James R. Rogers|

Martin Luther and other reformers depicted in stained glass at Nieuwe Kirk, Delft, Netherlands (Bill Perry/Shutterstock.com).
If anything, Lutheran and Reformed (i.e., “Calvinistic”) churches share the religious universalism of Roman Catholicism.

October 2, 2018|501(c)(3), Catholic Church, Free Speech, Liberal Suppression, Liberalism, Nativism, Philip Hamburger

Section 501(c)(3)’s Legacy of Prejudice: Mark Pulliam Sees No Evil

by Philip Hamburger|

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Mark Pulliam misunderstands the antagonisms that underlay section 501(c)(3) and still undergird a host of other speech restrictions.

September 13, 2018|Carlo Maria Viganò, Catholic Church, Pope Benedict, Pope Francis, Ross Douthat, sexual abuse

The Archbishop and the Pope

by Paul Seaton|

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City (TTStudio/Shutterstock.com).
The crisis demands answers to three questions: What did Francis know about McCarrick? When did he know? What did he do with that knowledge?

September 13, 2018|Catholic Church, Freedom of the Church, Hosanna-Tabor

The Catholic Church’s Accountability and Autonomy

by Richard W. Garnett|

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The abuses and crimes of Catholic bishops and priests casts doubt on the "freedom of the church."

September 13, 2018|Canon Law, Catholic Church, Dallas Charter, Pope John Paul II, Theodore McCarrick

Flouting the Canon Law, Once More

by Ed Condon|

The Roman Rota at the Jean-Léon Allie Library
What the Church’s hierarchy has lacked is not the canonical mechanisms necessary for dealing with abuse, but a zeal for justice.

August 31, 2018|Alexis de, Alexis De Tocequeville, Catholic Church, Mediating Institutions, Private Schools, Robert Delahunty, Robert George, scandals

Modern Mediating Institutions Need Greater Transparency

by John O. McGinnis|

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Many mediating institutions are in trouble today, beset by scandal from within and harassed by the state from without: but how to help them?

July 5, 2018|Catholic Church, Counter Reformation, Galileo, Inquisition, Medici family, Papal States, Scientific Revolution

Galileo’s Trial: A Conversation with Dom Paschal Scotti

by Dom Paschal Scotti|

Dom Paschal Scotti discusses the facts, personalities, and ideas of the Galileo case.

July 18, 2012|Catholic Church, Cristeros, Cristiada, Father Miguel Pro, Fray Bartolome de Las Casas, General Plutarco Elias Calles, Inca, Maya, Mexica, Mexican Constitution of 1917, Pius II, Pius XI, Slavery

Religious Freedom and State Power in the Latin American Experience

by Dario Fernandez-Morera|

The recent appearance of a number of Christian historical movies, such as There Be Dragons, on the sufferings of Catholics during the Spanish Civil War; Of Gods and Men, on a massacre of Trappist monks by Muslim fighters in 1996; and For the Greater Glory, on the Cristiada War in Mexico, makes John Lynch’s New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America curiously timed.  This excellent book gives a panoramic description of the rise, ups and downs, and present state of religion in Latin America.  It covers the different Christian churches, Judaism, Vodou, Santeria, and Amerindian religions.  However, it justifiably focuses on the Catholic Church, for as the author makes clear, Catholicism has been for five centuries “the defining religion of Latin America.” 

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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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