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Letters to the Editor: December 2024

Israel & Hamas: No Moral Equivalence... Our Primal Fear of Being Cast Out... Another Garesché... Understanding a Divinized Reality... and more

The News You May Have Missed: December 2024

Victim or the Crime?... Under the Golden Arches... Banking to Death... Be Brief, Be Gone... Heritage Hunters... Old Mintage from the New World... and more

Symposium on Catholics & American Political Life

PART I

The time is ripe to reconsider the trajectory of our nation, and how Catholics fit into it. To that end, we asked thinkers of different stripes four questions.

The Genius of Paul Johnson

REMEMBERING A PEERLESS HISTORIAN

By Terry Scambray

He believed in man’s natural capacities and glories in the fluid class system that has been a strength of the West, as opposed to the clannishness of tribal societies.

History Never Happened

ON POETIC LIES

By Jason M. Morgan

By the time the future comes, the present has bled into the past. The mind makes a story later about some of the scraps and calls it “history,” but no such story exists.

Whither the Roman Rite?

By Paul Malocha

Arguing that the Novus Ordo Missae is substantively different from the old Mass is not easy, even as it is plain that something is very different between the new rite and the old.

Briefly Reviewed: December 2024

Here we review Gender Ideology and Pastoral Practice: A Handbook for Catholic Clergy, Counselors, and Ministerial Leaders.